Parasitic Fly Inside | Variable Fruit Fly S1, Male, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
Family: | Fruit Fly (Tephritidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Basal Fruit Fly (Acanthonevroides basalis) | ||||
This Photo: | S1, Female, dorsal | ||||
Synonyms: | Acanthonevroides bicolor or Acanthonevroides bicolour | ||||
Thank you Tony Daley for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: ~6.5mm long. Females have a flat, spade like ovipositor to lay their eggs. Tony D said "I agree with you on Acanthonevroides, and further keys to A. bicolor, which btw is an SA species. The flies in this genus, like many in Tephridae, are not fruit flies in the strict sense but belong to a family with notorious fruit flies. From Permkam & Hancock (1995) on Acanthonevroides biology : "Biological information is scanty, but the larvae probably develop beneath the bark of trees." " | |||||
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