Pointed Bee Fly
Male, dorsal
Orange-striped Bee Fly
S1, Male, dorsal
| Pointed Bee Fly Male, dorsal | | Orange-striped Bee Fly S1, Male, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Pointed Bee Fly (Australiphthiria sp ES01) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female, dorsal | ||||
Thank you Anthony Paul for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere We thought these two were different species (they still may be) but saw an photo on-line of two breeding and the males don't have the yellow back. The male also has eyes closer together than the female (quite typical of flies). | |||||
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