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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	Flies (Diptera)
	Family:	Bristle Fly (Tachinidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Gold-headed Blue Tachinid Fly (Cuphocera sp)
	This Photo:	Dorsal
	Synonym:	Peleteria sp
	Thank you James Lumbers for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~9mm long. We found the live one in May, and a dead one in Sept.
	Copyright © 2014-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 07-May-2014
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.