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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	Flies (Diptera)
	Family:	Hover Fly (Syrphidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Beautiful Hover Fly (Austalis pulchella)
	This Photo:	🔍Female: Face🔎
	Thank you Tony Daley for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere A large fly at ~13mm long We would have called it "Polka-dot Hover Fly" But pulchella means "Beautiful". 1 specimen photographed in November
	Copyright © 2020-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 19-Nov-2020
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.