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I caught a Myopa species at the weekend. I have provisionally keyed it as M strandi, but the colour of the pleurae is dark, rather than reddish-yellow. The fly does have rows of adpressed bristles on the ventral-postero part of the four front tibia. Can anyone advise, is this feature unique to Myopa strandi, or might other Myopa species share the adpressed bristles feature?

There are some photographs at: www.insectpix.net...

Best wishes to all
Nigel Jones