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Found yesterday in Meppel (Netherlands) sice 7,2 mm

At first I thought is was a Phaonia, but no species fit.

Hydrotaea could also....(H.albipuncta) but then my fly is to long....
I don't see it anymore, whit this fly....:o


Greatings Joke

halteres brownish
arista almost bare
black shiny spot on each side of katepisternum(anterior)
meron bare
notopleuron whit hairs
sternite 1 sutelose
prosternum black and sutelose
fore tibia whit anterior seta
row of acrostichals

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haha, i need a picture from above, to tell you if it's phaonia, but i am just in here.
uwe
ps serious: I had a good teacher at waarneming.nl
the wing venes are typic phaonia, also the patterns and hairs on abdomen, i just meet p. valida and i did know that see my topic, no musca but phaonia, thanks to the administrator and stephan i am shure

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I'm almost sure now........Hydrotaea dentipes.

I always get confused whit those Hydrotaea's

Going solo....Joke :)
(only waiting for confirming.....I hope)

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There are strong proclinate setae on frons, so not a Phaoniinae. Hydrotaea dentipes is an interesting proposition, however from this picture, it is difficult to confirm (need to see the frontal triangle, here the M1+2 seems not conspicuously bent like H. dentipes...).

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Maybe not the best photo (triangle is very shiny in real)
And H.dentipes has black halteres ....mine not..

Joke

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On the contrary, the halteres appear dark brown, not pale/yellow. If there is an ad on t2 and if apical section of M1+2 slightly bent forward, I think we can do a H. dentipes of this fly.

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R4-5 seams slightly narrowed towards apex...
mt2 has a pd, but on one tibia there are 2 seta above the pd and the other tibia has one seta above the pd.....?
And the beginning of the haltera is yellow and the end is black.

But I don't want to make it to difficult....so I think H.dentipes.....it must be!!

Thanks for the effort ;)

Greatings Joke