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Let us say 12mm. wingspan. I haven't keyed it yet using what is visible of the chaetotaxy but this fly looks very like the two Phaonia viarum in our collection (Ulster Museum, Belfast Ireland). Note the microscopic eye setae, red basal antennal segments,discal vein with a slight curve forward shortly after the middle of the apical segment. All characters right for viarum as are the reddish-yellow legs, dark tarsi, and distinctive golden-yellow pollinose patterned abdomen. A heavy looking fly.Could well be Roberts perhaps (c.f.) viarum is entirely correct :p:p I'll look in more detail later. Robert (homonym see glossary)