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Hello,
The photo where this detail comes from was primarily taken to show the flower structure of Oenothera tetragona (Onagraceae). When I took it in June 2006 my interest in insects was still underdeveloped, which has enormously changed meanwhile! So I would really like to know whether this fly might be a Sicus. Unfortunately, there is just this one pic, but the wing venation is well seen.
Thanks, Sundew

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wow!!! lucky you! One of my favorite flies! Conopidae > Myopa s.

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That's good news, dear Jorge - this genus was still missing in my collection. I wished I had more time for sorting my fly photographs, but the semester is too time-demanding at the moment. Sorry!
Warm regards, Sundew

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Sicus ferrugineus, male, I guess ferrugineus

Jens-Hermann

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why not Myopa?

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Dear Jorge!

The characters are
- very long T2
- colour of the wing (light base, no spots)
- small frons + colour of frons
- Jizz

What have been your reasons to guess it could be Myopa? Which species could be possible?

Jens-Hermann

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the frons seemed to me bulgy and the eyes seemed very smaller than the rest of head (typical for Myopa).
Myopa occulta has no spots on wings. the wings are clear too. But this couldn't never to be a M. occulta.
Maybe I was fooled by the way the frons projects.
I was thinking in M. dorsalis. the scutellum seems to be reddish; the colour of abdomen fits well.
I don?t know all Myopa. I just know these: Myopa buccata, Myopa occulta, Myopa picta, Myopa tessellatipennis, Myopa testacea.

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Though I wished I had found a Myopa at last, I am inclined to join Jens-Hermann's opinion in this case. As the photo does not show the required details, and I have already seen Sicus ferrugineus in our area, let us take it for this species with a "cf."
Many thanks, Sundew