March Fly: Female, dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Deer Fly (Tabanidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

March Fly (Tabanidae sp ES01)

This Photo:

Female, dorsal

Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
The abdomen shape seems quite different to the Dasybasis genera we've shown above.
This female has scattered hairy eyes.

This species is

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

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