Long Legged Fly
Ellura
Long Legged Fly
Dorsal
 
                      
Long Legged Fly (Hydrophorus cf praecox)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Flies (Diptera)
Family: Longlegged Fly (Dolichopodidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Long Legged Fly (Hydrophorus cf praecox)
This Photo:     Dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
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.

Similar Species: Water Floating Fly (Brachydeutera sydneyensis)

Copyright © 2016-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 26-Oct-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.