Pointed Bee Fly
Female, dorsal
Orange-striped Bee Fly
S2, Male, dorsal
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| Pointed Bee Fly Female, dorsal | | Orange-striped Bee Fly S2, Male, dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Orange-striped Bee Fly (Australiphthiria sp ES02)| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Male, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Tony Daley for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~3.5mm long. We originally thought this might be a Geron sp. In the sun, the stripe is VERY obvious and more like red than orange. We recognise the male here as the eyes are touching, females have separated eyes.
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