Small Scarab Fly
Face
Brown Nose Fly
S1, Male: In the field
| Small Scarab Fly Face | | Brown Nose Fly S1, Male: In the field | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) iNaturalist Observation | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Pyrgotid Fly (Pyrgotidae) | ||||
| Species: | Small Scarab Fly (Osa sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | Ventral | ||||
| Other name: | Light Fly | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere About 10mm long (excluding the ovipositor). Had lots of them at the night light, along with many smaller beetles (assume scarab). You could well think that with the ovipositor it's a fruit fly. But no, a related family, Pyrgotidae, also called Light Flies as they come to night lights. Scarab flies because they parisitise scarab beetles. Very distinctive head shape, but couldn't get the wings veins very clearly. The body hair is diagnostic for this genus. Looking at Facilina sp, the hairs are tiny in comparison. | |||||
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