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Ever since I saw this thread I've been thinking that it would be nice to find V. cingulata in Buckinghamshire (UK), and today it happened :D! This fly was actually found by my colleague Laura Fennell during a butterfly walk that we were running at Homefield Wood Wildlife Trust reserve this morning (in light rain). The site is chalk grassland and mixed woodland, some 10km east of the Warburg reserve population that Chris Raper mentions above.

(The same reserve produced the conopid Leopoldius brevirostris a few days ago, so it's doing pretty well for scarce Diptera B))

Thanks to both Chris's for alerting me to the possibility of this fly being found.

Martin