Pink-bellied Frit Fly: Female: dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Grass Fly (Chloropidae)

Species:

Pink-bellied Frit Fly (Gaurax sp ES2)

This Photo:

Female: dorsal

Thank you Tony Daley for confirming the id and Kristi Ellingsen for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~4mm long.
A pink belly,
yellow face,
orange body with black stripes AND white scutellum!
and finally hairy eyes
Similar looking to Ceratolauxania sp (Lauxaniid, different family), but smaller, less body hair, hairy eyes and different wing venation .... otherwise identical

LOL
We were able to find the id to this species thanks to comments Tony made on iNaturalist observations, as well as the web site "Insects of Tasmania" that he and Kristi Ellingsen maintain.

This species is

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

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