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This little tachinid female seems to me as Gymnosoma sp., but the size is really shorter than usual (4-5 mm, as Cistogaster sp.)!
More I try to find, grater it's difficult

Found on parsley flowers, near Paris (France) in July 2006.

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the same one

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and the last photo

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Gymnosoma nitens perhaps? That's the really small species here and the specimen I have has a slightly stripey abdomen.

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Thanks Chris.
Gymnosoma nitens is a new sp. for me!

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It would be new to me too - if I could find one! Here they are rare and quite restricted to the east, around London.

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Looks like Gymnosoma nitens.
Which is, in my mind, so different from the other ones that I personally prefer the name Stylogymnomyia nitens.


Theo

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Thanks Theo