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The box is next to the microscope now and I again wonder why people cannot collect all in alcohol. It makes nearly all the features of empids so much better visible. It does not let all males look like Methuselah: shrivelled genitalia.

So a kind request: everyone who collects empids: store them in alcohol. It is easier to extract them from alcohol that to restore shrivelled specimens to full bloom.

By the way: There is at least E. tessellata, E. femorata, E. punctata and R. crassirostris. And there are some interesting looking Morroccan Empis.