Orange Banded Stiletto Fly S2, profile | Orange Banded Stiletto Fly S1, Antennae | |||||
Animals Plants Info |
| Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Stiletto Fly (Therevidae) | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Orange Banded Stiletto Fly (Therevidae sp ES03)| This Photo: | S2, Wing Venation | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long, ~13mm wingspan. We thought this was a Taenogerella schlingeri but have found Shaun Winterton's paper and need to review it to check our id's of these.An exceptionally long body compared to the wingspan.
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