Double Striped Tangle-veined Fly: Adult Male, Pronotum, Eyes, Ocelli

Double Striped Tangle-veined Fly (Trichophthalma bivittata)

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Tangle-veined Fly (Nemestrinidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Double Striped Tangle-veined Fly (Trichophthalma bivittata)

This Photo:

🔍Adult Male, Pronotum, Eyes, Ocelli🔎

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

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~17mm long, excluding it proboscis; which was ~4mm, while the head ~3mm long.
Here the male has the eyes touching, but with females the eyes are separated.
Chris said "This keys to T. bivittata wheeleri, that is currently considered to be just a variant of T. bivittata."

This species is

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

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