Short-tongued Flower-loving Fly Female, Wing Venation | Short-tongued Flower-loving Fly Female, Abdomen, profile | |||||
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. | |||||
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