Black & White Striped Bee Fly: S2, Male, Face

Black & White Striped Bee Fly (Meomyia sericans)

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black & White Striped Bee Fly (Meomyia sericans)

This Photo:

🔍S2, Male, Face🔎

Other name:

Black and White Striped Bee Fly

Thank you Dr Chris Lambkin & Thomas Mesaglio for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
~12mm long excluding proboscis.
Very interesting the "beard" on the leading edge of the wings!
We recognise the males here as the eyes are touching, females have separated eyes.
When we noted this on iNat, Chris agreed saying "Males holoptic according to Li & Yeates 2020 - eyes touching above according to Evenhuis 1983."

This species is

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

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