Dagger Fly: Female, abdomen

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Dagger Fly (Empididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Dagger Fly (Empis sp)

This Photo:

Female, abdomen

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

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
Also called Dance Flies.
This one was quite a small fly @ <10mm long with a very long proboscis compared to body length.

This species is

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

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