what sort of fly is this?

[keyobo]

ok, i searched the internet and asked some people but still know nothing about it, so i thought you might help me with it. one day in my home garden walking as usual and i noticed this weird looking fly, its looks like a normal fly except smaller, green eyes, an image of an insect on its wings. so i capture it and took a picture qwa.JPG
any idea what it could be?

[poschiavanus]

Welcome to WAB.

It's best if you add your images to the WAB Image archive (there is a tendency for external images to get lost, and therefore threads lose any sense). You should be able to load the image directly from your mediafire link.

The fly you have found is a Gall fly from the family Tephritidae, one of a group of fly families often known as picture wing flies. The pattern on the wing enables a reasonably accurate identification to be made. It looks similar to a species called Trypanea augur on Plate XVI of Seguy's Faune de France book, but I don't know what this species is now called or if it is British.

It would help if you gave an idea when and where you found it.

[keyobo]

thank you for replying. gall fly is a good guess but i'm still not sure.
caught it 3-4 days ago around afternoon under a clear sky in a cold day where the temperature was 14-9 c not far from my orange tree in my home riyadh, saudi arabia. yeah i'm not from uk ^^

[Geoff F]

You could try checking this site but I think it is only European species.

Diptera.info - Photo Albums: Tephritidae

[poschiavanus]

I'd second Geoff's suggestion of asking on diptera.info: although mainly European it does cover other areas of the world.

My other suggestion is to google Kutuk: a turkish researcher who has published a number of papers on the Tephritidae of Turkey which just might include your species. Many of these are available as PDF files.