Blue & White Bristle Fly S1, Male, Wing, Leading Edge | Blue & White Bristle Fly S1, Male, posterior, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
Family: | Bristle Fly (Tachinidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Blue & White Bristle Fly (Microtropesa latigena) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S1, Male, posterior🔎 | ||||
Other name: | Blue and White Bristle Fly | ||||
Thank you James Lumbers for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line 1st Record on Atlas & iNat: ~12mm long. We can't find any images of this bruiser on-line and id'ed it from the literature; Burwell 1996. The posterior pattern on the abdomen is diagnostic. Found this one in a flowering Dryland Tea tree (Melaleuca lanceolata) | |||||
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