Short-palped Crane Fly: Head

Short-palped Crane Fly (Symplecta pilipes)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Small Crane Fly (Limoniidae)

Species:

Short-palped Crane Fly (Symplecta pilipes)

This Photo:

Head

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
The big visual difference between Crane flies & Scorpion flies is that Scorpion flies (Order Mecoptera) have 4 wings and are not true flies.
Crane flies are true flies which all have 2 wings and 2 clubs (halteres). Due to their slender bodies the Crane fly halteres are much easier to see than with many other fly species.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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