Dagger Fly Female, profile | Water Floating Fly Profile, ~4mm | |||||
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. | |||||
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