Black-winged Fruit Fly Female, profile | Black-winged Fruit Fly Female, Hairy Abdomen | |||||
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, Wing Pattern | ||||
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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