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	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.
	Copyright © 2016-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 17-Nov-2016
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.