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Found in Szeged, S. Hungary, on the date 19. 07. 2011. To me, it lookslike Solieria, but with entirely black legs? (I have pictures only from this angle.)
Thanks for any comment in advance!
Henrik

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Not Solieria - Solieria are generally thinner but this also has at least 3 pairs of scutellar bristles and Solieria have 2 pairs. This is far more interesting and needed to be collected to be identified properly :)

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Thanks again! And again, I dont have the specimen:(

Do you have a suggestion for the genus perhaps?

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Just occurred to me: couldn't this be also Bithia??

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I'm 99% sure that it isn't Bithia because it looks unusual and doesn't look like anything that I have seen before. I suspect that it is a south-east European specialist. :)

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Thanx for your reply! It's a pity, 'cause I like the fly and the picture is not bad either;)

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Someone else, like Theo might be able to go further - he has seen a lot more species, from a wider geographic range too :)

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My latest attempt:): Erycia?

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Can someone rule out Erycia female (something close to foribunda)?

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Certainly not Erycia. If I use MoschWeb I get to Bithia (which also looks correct from the habitus) but I am not sure of this species .... it is new to me. :)

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Thanks a lot again, Chris! Could you explain the reason to me?

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For me Bithia flies have white faces with protruding mouth edge ... bare eyes ... generally quite well-dusted (but I never saw one this colour) ... but I used the MoschWeb website to work through visible features.

Erycia generally have different head shapes ... different numbers and arrangement of bristles on the thorax, head & abdomen. You are right that the colour of the dusting fits furibunda but all of the structural features of tachinids (particularly the number, size & position of bristles) are very important ... and they don't fit this fly ;)

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Thank you very much indeed for your detailed explanation! I usually try to take arrangements of bristles into account, but it is quite difficult sometimes… For example, this fly seems to have a few postsutural acrostichals on one (right) side, but they are apparently missing from the other side... Well, this is probably not important, I just mention it as an example of the difficulties a poor beginner have to face :D.

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Yes, you do have to be careful when bristles are aberrant or have been damaged so check both sides of the body and if in doubt run both options in the keys to find the most satisfactory. In this case acr are not important - the 3 strong dc are the ones to look for plus the position and number of abdominal bristles. Also note that the humerus has the 3 strongest bristles in a line, not a triangle. The projecting mouth edge though was probably the most informative feature and the hairs on vein r1 also :)