Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly
Male, dorsal
Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly
Male, Eyes
| Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly Male, dorsal | | Emarginate-winged Long Legged Fly Male, Eyes | | ||
 | 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. The one specimen we found in November was a male and is very distinctive, with a mark (sclerite) on the trailing edge of the wings that distorts the wing. Only the male has this feature. The male genetalia are very strange on these, bent over at 180 deg. | |||||
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