This could be a housefly but just can't identify accurately enough, the forehead is an orange colour if this helps to identify. It is on a carrot flower!
The problem is, there are 2500 species in that family. And it gets worse:
"Generally only males of this family can reliably be identified to species, and then only by examination of dissected genitalia. The literature is incomplete or scattered for all regions"
That is the route I went down when trying to identify it, at one stage I even thought it could be a Yellow Dung Fly, it is quite fun, if somewhat tense at times, to research!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophaga_bercaea
The problem is, there are 2500 species in that family. And it gets worse:
"Generally only males of this family can reliably be identified to species, and then only by examination of dissected genitalia. The literature is incomplete or scattered for all regions"