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Hi, thanks all for your help so far, i've a few more that i'll try and post over the next day or so and get clearer images of those that people have requested.

Does anybody have a clue what this species/genus this fly is? Taken on the 21st May last year at Powerstock Common, Dorset in a mixed woodland/meadow habitat - seemed to be sitting on a Common Spotted orchid. It was ~10 mm.

Thanks

Richard

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It's an Asilid, but the abdominal pattern does not ring a bell. Should be very distinctive ....
You don't have Cyrtopogon, do you ?


Theo Zeegers

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Hi Theo, I couldn't find a record in the UK checklist - here is a list of the UK recorded Asilidae

Asilus crabroniformis Linnaeus, 1758
Choerades gilvus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Choerades marginatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dasypogon diadema (Fabricius, 1781)
Dioctria atricapilla Meigen, 1804
Dioctria baumhaueri Meigen, 1820
Dioctria cothurnata Meigen, 1820
Dioctria linearis (Fabricius, 1787)
Dioctria oelandica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dioctria rufipes (De Geer, 1776)
Dysmachus trigonus (Meigen, 1804)
Eutolmus rufibarbis (Meigen, 1820)
Laphria flava (Linnaeus, 1761)
Lasiopogon cinctus (Fabricius, 1781)
Leptarthrus brevirostris (Meigen, 1804)
Leptarthrus vitripennis (Meigen, 1820)
Leptogaster cylindrica (De Geer, 1776)
Leptogaster guttiventris Zetterstedt, 1842
Machimus arthriticus (Zeller, 1840)
Machimus atricapillus (Falla33;n, 1814)
Machimus cingulatus (Fabricius, 1781)
Machimus cowini (Hobby, 1946)
Machimus rusticus (Meigen, 1820)
Neoitamus cothurnatus (Meigen, 1820)
Neoitamus cyanurus (Loew, 1849)
Neomochtherus pallipes (Meigen, 1820)
Pamponerus germanicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Philonicus albiceps (Meigen, 1820)
Rhadiurgus variabilis (Zetterstedt, [1838])

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My guess is a female Leptarthrus cf. brevirostris ... I have seen similar locally this year :)

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Hi Chris, thats great, i've had a check and i think you may be spot on!

Much appreciated,

Richard

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I thought about Leptarthrus, haven't seen it in 20 years ..
If you don't have Cyrtopogon, it must be that

Theo