Posted by
ChrisR on 14-07-2006 12:30
#6
Thanks Dima ... I still can't make up my mind though. It looks a little like
Siphona cristata - I can't see median-marginal bristles on T1+2; the vertext seems more orange than the thorax colour; and there seem to be 3 post-sutural dc. But as a genus you won't find many people willing to gibe a 100% identification - even from specimens!

Posted by
Zeegers on 31-07-2006 10:45
#8
The pictures are excellent for such a small fly,
but it is still a Siphona !
DC are 3+3, as rightly noticed by Chris.
the proboscis seems to be short (for a Siphona).
The palpi are quite clubbed.
My guess would be confusa or variata.
Theo Zeegers