Pale-footed Fungi Fly: Male, White Patches

Pale-footed Fungi Fly (Tapeigaster argyrospila)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Toadstool Fly (Heteromyzidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Pale-footed Fungi Fly (Tapeigaster argyrospila)

This Photo:

🔍Male, White Patches🔎

Thank you Dr Martin Hauser for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Just over 9mm long. T. brunneifrons is similar, but has striping on it's thorax.
Tony Daley said "A helpful difference between T. brunneifrons and T. argyrospila ... is tibiae of the former species has the base and middle marked reddish but only so in the middle for the latter species."

This species is

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

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