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Hi, I'm not expert about diptera, but I collected one 8 mm fly whis is under my binocular:
- It has a ptilinal suture
- The apex of the abdomen turns inwards (ventrally) like a Conopidae
- Lacks elongated snout
- Anal cell next (but not reach) the wing border
- False wing border like Sirphidae
- Eye (laterally) occupying nearly all the head, not like Conopid.

So is not Sirphidae, nor Conopidae, so I'm lost.:(

Any idea of which family could it be woul be wellcomed.

Thanks in advance, Rafa.

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Try Pipunculidae ;) - just a few pictures in the gallery, but you can find many more with a forum search

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Thanks, but wing venation don't looks as this family. I don't have camera connected to the binocular, but I will add a drawing later.

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You'd better tell where you found the fly as well ...

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Well, the fly was catched in my kitchen, but I live in the countryside. 11 may 2008, the lenght of the wing about 7 mm; the lenght of the body about 10 mm.

Here I add a bad picture (ventral habitus, one wing reversed) and a drawing of the right wing... just to know family... and learn.

Thanks in advance.

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It looks like Baccha elongata, Syrphidae.

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Sorry I could'nt put the 2n image, now... So many thanks if it is Bacca elongata!

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Great! Could be that animal. But then Chinery's key guide of insects is wrong? I saw a ptilininian suture! Or may be I'm wrong?
And also the apex of the abdomen was turned ventrally, like conopids.

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With that wing (nice drawing) it is Syrphidae without doubt, and with this figure it's Baccha without doubt.

Greetings.

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LOL

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Sorry, my head was thinking about the flies:
Can Grau, Beuda, Girona, Spain, UTM 31T DG7477, 400 m, 11 may 2008.
;)