Garden Soldier Fly: S1, Male, Legs

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Soldier Fly (Stratiomyidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Garden Soldier Fly (Exaireta spinigera)

This Photo:

🔍S1, Male, Legs🔎

Thank you Dr Martin Hauser for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
Males have their eyes much closer together than females.
Notice the thoracic spines, typical of soldier wasps.

This species is

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

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