Half-band Hover Fly
In Flight
Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly
S10, Female, dorsal
| Half-band Hover Fly In Flight | | Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly S10, Female, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Hover Fly (Syrphidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Half-band Hover Fly (Melangyna viridiceps) | ||||
| This Photo: | & Friends | ||||
Thank you Stephen Fricker & Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: Was inspecting this senecio flower, to confirm we already had it identified, and saw the hover fly. Excited to finally find one on Ellura I missed the other 4 tiny insects around it. General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and elsewhere There are other similar hover flies to this in SA. A little known one is Eupeodes confrater. Matthew Vosper said "bands curve forwards at the sides" with those. There is also the well know Simosyrphus grandicornis shown below. It has a yellow face as well as a yellow stripe on it's "shoulder" (side of the pronotum). Similar Species: Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis) | |||||
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