Leptogaster sp.
Thin-tailed robber fly at Cotter River, ACT
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| Unverified | HarveyPerkins | 10 Jan 2017 |
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5 comments
13 Jan 2017
I assumed it was the male below but it seems to have lost most of its bits. Whats happening?
14 Jan 2017
I think the male is all there. Clearer in the second photo - the long rear legs are the most obvious feature, the head and thorax are all bunched together, and the abdomen is vertical, joining the female at mid-arch. The first two pairs of legs are roughly equal in size and held together. That's my take.
16 Jan 2017
There were two entries for Leptogaster sp., so I renamed this sighting to the one that had most sightings. The duplicate has been removed.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.768061-35.471839
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 7 Jan 2017 02:01 PM Recorded on
- HarveyPerkins Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
- Mixed Gender
Collections
- HarveyPerkins Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Leptogaster sp. Robber flies (Asilidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Leptogaster sp. Scientific name
- Thin-tailed robber fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1499m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
Quality score
4 / 7
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Additional attributes
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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