Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Attractive 1cm long fly with green abdomen

Posted by richard on 14-07-2011 20:12
#1
Can this attractive 1cm long fly which landed on my arm today in Nottinghamshire be identified please?

Thank you
Edited by richard on 14-07-2011 20:16

Posted by Paul Beuk on 14-07-2011 20:47
#2
Chironomidae

Posted by John Carr on 15-07-2011 01:45
#3
Probably Chironomini. I have seen a few with clightly clubbed abdomen. I don't know if it's a species character or egg mass (this is a female) or something else.