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a fly 12mm exactly including eyes, 10mm abdomen. Sitting with large marmalade flies, I thought it was an extra large one, but the abdomen is long and thin, and when I caught it in a tube it looked like a tiny dragonfly, a long narrow body swollen at the end, with an odd squared-'Y'-shape appendage sticking out the end like a short, wide tuning fork. Blueish oblique shapes on the latter sternites, some slight dark orange markings along the tergites
What family might it be?
regards, Jeremy

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Stratiomyidae, but with my record on ID's lately..that is all I am saying

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The small discal cell points to a Soldierfly. The lack of scutellar spines and abdomen shape then points to a Sargus.

Ian

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Sargus bipunctatus

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I noticed the small cell (on the other pics) and that the thorax reminded me a bit of a recent M. polita, looking quickly at the list I see there's a sargus called Yellow-legged.. I've got the specimen and will look through them

thanks!