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Description: The two light-coloured stripes (hence its name: albo and striatus) on the thorax are pretty distinctive markings when attempting to identify this fly. Also the oblique bars on tergites 3 and 4, which are often fused along the centre line into an inverted V shaped band, especially noted in the summer brood females. It is known as a woodland-edge species, although the one illustrated was photographed in my suburban garden, which is nowhere near a wood! Widespread thoughout the UK exept in the very far north of Scotland. April to September with two broods.
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