Black-winged Fruit Fly: Female: dorsal

Black-winged Fruit Fly (Spathulina acroleuca)

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Fruit Fly (Tephritidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black-winged Fruit Fly (Spathulina acroleuca)

This Photo:

Female: dorsal

Thank you Tony Daley for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~2.5mm body & head length, ~4.5mm including wings
We've blown out the lighting on some of these shots to highlight both the abdomen hair & the wing venation (as distinct from wing pattern)

This species is

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

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