Metallic-faced Rutilia Fly
S2, Female, profile
Metallic-faced Rutilia Fly
S2, Female, anterior
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| Metallic-faced Rutilia Fly S2, Female, profile | | Metallic-faced Rutilia Fly S2, Female, anterior | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Bristle Fly (Tachinidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Metallic-faced Rutilia Fly (Rutilia simplex)| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Female, anterior🔎 | Thank you James Lumbers for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere A very large fly at ~19 to ~20mm body & head length. These are pretty rare. S2 was found just 3 weeks shy of 10 years since we saw our first one. Notice the different colours. One is quite green and the other more blue. It's possible it's the different camera technology, but also quite possible this is an indication of how colour is not a diagnostic feature with these. James said "As far the current taxonomy goes, this is absolutely R. simplex. There are no other Rutilia (in Australia) with extensively metallic parafrontals (extending into the parafacial region)."
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