Double Striped Tangle-veined Fly: Eye Hair in Focus

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:

🔍Eye Hair in Focus🔎

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.
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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