====== Campsicnemus magius - Fancy-legged Fly ======
**Name:** //Campsicnemus magius// (Loew, 1845)

**Family:** Dolichopodidae

**Common name:** Fancy-legged Fly
===== Distribution =====
Mainly coasts of southern England (Thames estuary)

[[http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/sgb_nbn_map.php?id=NBNSYS0000012795|Distribution map]] from publicly available, 10km square resolution data on the NBN Gateway.
===== Habitat =====
This halophilic and thermophilic species needs bare banks for mating (A. Stark, Germany, pers. comm.) "Bare mud beside pools and ditches is a requirement for adults." (quotation from Empidoidea Review, Falk & Crossley, 2005)
===== BAP =====
Added in 2007