Tiny blue fly with eyes like a jumping spider

North Burnett, Queen, Australia

Found this lynx spider with two victims. I don't know if the two flys were engaged in a battle or just happened to both be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm fairly confident that the fly laying on its back with the large eyes is a Green Long Legged fly in the Dolichopodidae family but I have never seen a bright blue fly with eyes like a Salticidae jumping spider before. Can anyone help?

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Sinks Grove, WV

I'm a little puzzled here - to which eyes are you referring? The blue fly appears to have lost its head altogether; all I can see in front of its wings is its thorax.

North Burnett, Queen, Australia

Here's a different view suunto, to me it looked like large eyes but perhaps it is the joint where the head used to be. Time to book into the optometrist I guess.

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