Grey Flesh Fly: Dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Flesh Fly (Sarcophagidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Grey Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga aurifrons)

This Photo:

Dorsal

Thank you Lorin Timaeus for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere
~9mm long.
Lorin said "Close to the eyes there is a long bristle bent forwards (proclinate) in Females. Males do not have them. Eye distance is hard to judge in Sarcophaga, only slight differences between the genders."

Similar Species: Fleshfly-mimicking Bristle Fly (Exorista sp)

This species is

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

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