Side-striped True Bee Fly
S1, Female, profile, Eye
Side-striped True Bee Fly
S1, Female, Wing Venation
| Side-striped True Bee Fly S1, Female, profile, Eye | | Side-striped True Bee Fly S1, Female, Wing Venation | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Side-striped True Bee Fly (Staurostichus sp ES04) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Female, profile, Bum Hair🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Chris Lambkin & Prof Xuankun Li (XkL) for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~5.5mm long, excluding appendages. Found in the vegi shadehouse yesterday. NB: the spots on the wings are NOT on the veins, they are in the middle of the wing cells. Seems unique. The large number of similar looking photo's are actually focusing on different parts of the body at different angles. Chris considered it may be a female Staurostichus pictipennis. Xuankun Li said "Chris, this looks so special! Not a Staurostichus pictipennis, but I am not sure about the species." We recognise female here as the eyes are separated, males have touching eyes. | |||||
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