Yellow-headed Soldier Fly Female, dorsal | 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, profile🔎 | ||||
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. | |||||
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