Orange-faced Thick-headed Fly: Male, ventral

Orange-faced Thick-headed Fly (Microconops sp)

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Thick-headed Fly (Conopidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Orange-faced Thick-headed Fly (Microconops sp)

This Photo:

🔍Male, ventral🔎

Thank you Tony Daley for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~6mm long.
Seems to be the closest in the 2010 paper by Schneider:
Totally smooth frons, not rugose, with no wrinkles.
Wing venation: Petiole to "R4+5" & "M", moderate length.
Wings Hayline.
Overall black with pale/grey pubescent stripes & orange/yellow frons. Frons not black anteriorly, but white.
Tips of antennae difficult to match exactly to drawings.

This species is

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

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