Long Legged Fly
Long Legged Fly
S3, dorsal
| Long Legged Fly | | Long Legged Fly S3, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Longlegged Fly (Dolichopodidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Long Legged Fly (Hydrophorus praecox) | ||||
| This Photo: | S2, dorsal | ||||
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 ~3.5mm long. They look much larger, but that's because nose to wing tip they are ~6.5mm long, and have a 14mm legspan. Like all long legged flies, these are also metallic, but it's not nearly so obvious as most. It's difficult to know with such small insects what is a real colour and what is a camera artifact as they just look like a little blur with the naked eyes (with with mine anyway Similar to our other water floating fly, which is a different family. This one has a line of white hair through the bottom of it's eyes and two white stripes on it's back that are made up of *very* short white hair. Notice how green S9 is compared to those photographed outside - possibly camera artifacts? Similar Species: Water Floating Fly (Brachydeutera sydneyensis) | |||||
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