Tangle-veined Fly: Male, profile

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Tangle-veined Fly (Nemestrinidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Tangle-veined Fly (Trichophthalma sp)

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
Here the males eyes don't quite touch, but are closer together than the females.
Note also the different tail appendage.

This species is

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

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