March Fly
S6, Female, ventral
Large Mud-nesting Wasp Mimicking Fly
In flight
| March Fly S6, Female, ventral | | Large Mud-nesting Wasp Mimicking Fly In flight | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Deer Fly (Tabanidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Large Mud-nesting Wasp Mimicking Fly (Palimmecomyia pictipennis) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Mating🔎 | ||||
| Synonym: | Scaptia pictipennis | ||||
Thank you Tony Daley for identifying, Reiner Richter, Dr Martin Hauser & Dr Bryan Lessard for confirming and Dr Ken Walker for helping with 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: Tony said: "What a great looking species, and wonderful record Brett! I'm fairly confident by their colouring and wing markings this is Palimmecomyia pictipennis ... they differ from the original description in only the abdominal dark band being slightly more extensive behind, though apparently these are rare so don't think many specimens have been collected, add to that only two females were examined and the male not known at the time of the description by Mackerras (1960)." Similar Species: Large Mud-nesting Wasp (Abispa ephippium) | |||||
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