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Can anyone identify this Chrysops from this angle? I think it is probably C. caecutiens, based on the combination of dark wing tips and dark legs, but just wondered if anyone had any other thoughts. Photographed 3 July 2019, Loire Valley, central lowland France on a site that centres around an old kaolin pit, now full of water, with heath, scrub and grassland. The site is very wet in winter, very dry in summer. I'd quite like to be able to ID this one, which evaded capture, as it was almost the only fly I saw on the site when surveying. The team I'm working with are hoping to get it listed as a ZNIEFF (a natural zone of interest for its ecology, flora and fauna).