Robber Fly: S1, Female, profile

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Robber Fly (Asilidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Robber Fly (Neoscleropogon sp)

This Photo:

S1, Female, profile

Thank you Dr Chris Cohen for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
The males we've captured have been 25-28mm long.
Long arista
Long hair
2 Significant brown bristle/setae pairs on the top/sides of the thorax. Along with other smaller black ones extending around the scutellum.
Yellow/pale orange hair on the back of the legs.
No obvious stripes on the thorax.
Dark grey abdomen dorsally. Paler underneath.
Dark red stiped legs.
Bright yellow halteres.
Large yellow/orange foot pads.
We photographed 6 specimens in Nov & Dec.

This species is

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

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