This fly with stripy eyes is about 75ml long. Beautiful shiny metallic colours, with black and white front legs, yellow/gold other legs. It was picking up one front leg, waving it in the air, put it down and repeat with the other front leg, put it down and wave its haltere's. Then repeat the whole process."Physiphora aenea, which more recent references say is a synonym for Physiphora alceae, and Physiphora demandata, likewise said to be a synonym for Physiphora clausa" bugguide.net/node/view/33447 See information from Tony below. More photos of these here
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Summary[edit] Description: Tetanops myopina couple, location: The Netherlands - Lemele - Lemelerberg. Date: 1 July 2013. Source: : This image is uploaded as image number 5028243 at waarneming.nl, a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.. Author: : This image is created by user Henk Soepenberg at waarneming.nl, a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. Camera location52° 27′ 18″ N, 6° 23′ 24″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 52.455000; 6.390000.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Picture-winged Fly - Myrmecothea myrmecoides, Meadowwood Farm SRMA, Mason Neck, Virginia. As you can see, this is an ant mimic. I'm not sure what evolutionary advantage this is for the fly though. HFDF!. Date: 19 June 2013, 15:53:58. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/52450054@N04/9158258822/. Author: Judy Gallagher.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Callopistromyia strigula. Species of insect. Date: 5 May 2018. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/17673092. Author: Katja Schulz. Camera location38° 58′ 37.74″ N, 77° 02′ 27.57″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 38.977151; -77.040992. Image shared by iNaturalist user: treegrow Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 truetrue. : This image was originally posted to iNaturalist by treegrow at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/17673092. It was reviewed on 13 December 2020 by INaturalistReviewBot and found to be published under the terms of the Cc-by-4.0 license.
Summary[edit] Description: English: U.S.A: CALIFORNIA: Orange County, Anaheim 7551 Vista Del Sol 26-VII-1977 ca 180m Paul H. Arnaud, Jr. Calif. Acad. Sci. Coll. Date: 25 February 2016, 16:33:23. Source: Own work. Author: Ken-ichi Ueda.