Small Scarab Fly
Profile
Small Scarab Fly
Ventral
| Small Scarab Fly Profile | | Small Scarab Fly Ventral | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Pyrgotid Fly (Pyrgotidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Small Scarab Fly (Cardiacera sp ES02) | ||||
| This Photo: | Head, dorsal | ||||
| Other name: | Light Fly | ||||
Thank you Tony Daley for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long. We found this one following our female Osa discovery and thought it was a male Osa sp. Tony said "I think this one is a different genus to your female Osa. The wings have the Sc vein almost bending at a right angle to meet the costa above, in Osa this vein doesn't bend so abruptly before meeting the costa. The particulars of the wing spots, especially also having three distinct spots along the pterostigma is typical (usually 2-3, but sometimes only one spot) of the species in Cardiacera with such spotted wings - they also typically have the pointy antennae." | |||||
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