Orange-faced Lauxaniid Fly
S1, profile
Orange Lauxaniid Fly
Dorsal
| Orange-faced Lauxaniid Fly S1, profile | | Orange Lauxaniid Fly Dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Lauxaniid Fly (Lauxaniidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Two-striped Lauxaniid Fly (Poecilohetaerus sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | S3, posterior | ||||
Thank you Tony Daley for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We assumed this was Poecilohetaerus schineri, however, Tony kindly pointed out other options for us "Both P. schineri and P. aquilus share a dark thorax with, in addition to the white stripes, a medial thin fawn line. I couldn't see the thin fawn line here which I'd need to confirm these species in addition to either frons detail (largely orange for the former, largely dark and with only a thin lighter medial section for the latter) or mid and hind tibiae (marked with dark colour for the former, entirely pale brown for the latter). Assuming the thin fawn line and thin frons line are obscured, then this is more likely P. aquilus. P. albolineatus is also quite similar and included for SA, but lacks the thin fawn line and the foreleg tarsi end in white segments". The photo is too poor quality to be sure, but we are leaning to P. albolineatus as there doesn't seem to be any medial thin fawn line here; as clearly seen on our Poecilohetaerus schineri photo. Hopefully we'll find another to confirm which we have here (possibly all 3 | |||||
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