Painted Lauxaniid Fly: Head

Painted Lauxaniid Fly (Sapromyza cf sp ES03)

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Lauxaniid Fly (Lauxaniidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Painted Lauxaniid Fly (Sapromyza cf sp ES03)

This Photo:

🔍Head🔎

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~7mm long.
Even Tony Daley thought the face markings were "bizarre"

This species is

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

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