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2026-05-14 19:26:23 UTC

Mark McCaughrean on Nostr: Some late evening sunshine, allowing me to spot this little fly from the glint of his ...

Some late evening sunshine, allowing me to spot this little fly from the glint of his silvery "nose" (really the frons).

It's a male in genus Metopia, satellite flies. Possibly M. argyrocephala (a name encoding the silver on the head), but iNaturalist tachnid experts say Metopia is hard to ID definitively from photos.

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