Metalic Green Tomato Fly
Female: profile
Metalic Green Tomato Fly
Male: Face
| Metalic Green Tomato Fly Female: profile | | Metalic Green Tomato Fly Male: Face | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Lance Fly (Lonchaeidae) | ||||
| Species: | Metalic Green Tomato Fly (Lamprolonchaea brouniana) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female: Face | ||||
Thank you Tony Daley for confirming the identification of this species Thank you Iain MacGowan for confirming the identification of this species General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~3.5mm long. The paper describing them says "possesses a distinctive pitted frons, which assists in distinguishing this species". Males & females can be separated by the distance between the eyes. While in other fly species the male eyes often touch at the top, with these they are just closer together making it more difficult to distinguish. We've photographed 7 specimens here, all in Oct & Nov. | |||||
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