![]() | False Fruit Fly S1, Female, Ovipositor | Black-winged Fruit Fly Female, profile | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
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)
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