Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly: Male, profile

Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly (Dytomyia sordida)

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, profile🔎

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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