Yellow-headed Soldier Fly: Female, Wing Venation

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Soldier Fly (Stratiomyidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Yellow-headed Soldier Fly (Inopus sp)

This Photo:

Female, Wing Venation

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

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~11mm long
It looks a lot like Inopus rubriceps but, apart from being in the wrong location, it's face/head is also the wrong shape. According to Nagatomi and Yukawa's paper, the top & bottom of the head are concave (Fig M, page 526). In our specimen here you can see the bottom of the head is flat.

This species is

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

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