Small-headed Fly: Male, ventral

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Small-headed Fly (Acroceridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Small-headed Fly (Ogcodes sp)

This Photo:

Male, ventral

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 male.
Unusually for flies, females also have "Holoptic" eyes in this genus. We discuss this more lower down the thumbnail page (under Biblio flies).
The genders can be separated by the abdominal stripes; wider in males, thinner in females where the females can look almost black.

This species is

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

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