White-striped Stiletto Fly
Dorsal, wings open, white b/g
White-striped Stiletto Fly
Dorsal, close up
| White-striped Stiletto Fly Dorsal, wings open, white b/g | | White-striped Stiletto Fly Dorsal, close up | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Stiletto Fly (Therevidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | White-striped Stiletto Fly (Pipinnipons fascipennis) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Dorsal, wings open, black b/g🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Chris Lambkin & Dr Martin Hauser for confirming and Kaye Proudley for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere ~12mm long. Wings are striped brown and black. Red legs, with white socks on the front legs. White striped abdomen. A very long tongue, which is generally more retracted that some of the images here. Being in the fridge to sleep seems to cause some insects to extract their tongue. Long antennae for a fly, but not as long as the stiletto fly above (Agapophytus aterrimus). As a bit of a trick, we've found photographing on white and then black backgrounds can show different shades/colours; particularly in the wings. Here however, that wasn't planned. The specimen just decided to try and escape before we had finished photographing it and landed on the body of the light we were using | |||||
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