Dwarf Striped Bee Fly: Ventral

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Dwarf Striped Bee Fly (Villini sp ES08)

This Photo:

🔍Ventral🔎

Thank you Dr Chris Lambkin for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~5mm long.
Notice the Yellow halteres here, compared to our other recent small one above.

This species is

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

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