Lesser Bulb Hover Fly: Female, Rear Leg

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Hover Fly (Syrphidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Lesser Bulb Hover Fly (Eumerus sp)

This Photo:

🔍Female, Rear Leg🔎

Thank you Tony Daley & 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
~8mm long. Superficially similar to a half-band, except blacker and the noticeably huge, round antennae. It also has swollen rear legs.
The wing venation is very unusual; almost like a 'W'.
The thickened rear legs also have spines.
Thank you to Martin for also letting us know this is a female.

This species is

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

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