False Fruit Fly: S1, Female, Wing Costa

False Fruit Fly (Paraspathulina eremostigma)

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 ovi-positor.

This species is

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

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