Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly Male, Wing Sclerite | Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly Male, Posterior | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
Family: | Longlegged Fly (Dolichopodidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly (Dytomyia sordida) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Male, Wing Venation🔎 | ||||
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 1st Live Photo on-line: ~6mm long. Notice the colours change dramatically depending on the angle of lighting. Males are very distinctive, with a mark (sclerite) on the trailing edge of the wings that distorts the wing. The male genetalia are very strange on these, bent over at 180 deg. | |||||
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