![]() | False Fruit Fly S1, Female, profile | False Fruit Fly S1, Female, Face | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Fruit Fly (Tephritidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | False Fruit Fly (Paraspathulina eremostigma)This Photo: | S1, Female, Wing Costa | Thank you Tony Daley for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~4mm long female. Notice the hairs along the leading edge (costa) of the wing. Like other fruit flies, has a spade like ovipositor.
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