Short-tongued Flower-loving Fly: Female, Head

Short-tongued Flower-loving Fly (Apiocera sp ES04)

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Flower-loving Fly (Apioceridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Short-tongued Flower-loving Fly (Apiocera sp ES04)

This Photo:

Female, Head

Thank you Dr Martin Hauser for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~17mm long. Our first live captured Flower-loving fly on Ellura

Interesting all the specimens we've found in this family are female. Males have a rounded abdomen, without the posterior bristly hairs.

This species is

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

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