Empididae (family)

1 Dance fly at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

	Empididae (family)	21 Feb 2019	KimPullen
	Unverified	21 Feb 2019	JudithRoach

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Couldn't find the robber fly category but I suspect it's a couple of the smaller kind.

4 comments

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

21 Feb 2019

Robber Flies are grouped under True flies(Diptera).

KimPullen wrote:

21 Feb 2019

Judith, great shots of a mating pair with the female gorging on the male's 'nuptial gift', a small fly of another kind.

JudithRoach wrote:

21 Feb 2019

Thanks. Hope you all don't mind I'm not so hot on the ID side. Memory like a sieve - got hit with a post viral thing, find it hard to retain facts :-(. Enjoying going hunting with my camera though :-)

KimPullen wrote:

23 Feb 2019

It's great to have you behind the camera Judith. We all contribute with our own skills.

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Location information

Coordinates 148.766907 -35.467928
Altitude 1474.9m
Maps Namadgi National Park
Places Cotter River, ACT

Sighting information

2 Abundance
20 Feb 2019 04:58 PM Recorded on
JudithRoach Recorded by
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Insects Other true flies True flies (Diptera) JudithRoach Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

Empididae (family) Scientific name
Dance fly Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1474.9m Recorded at altitude
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Empididae (family)

1 Dance fly at Cotter River, ACT

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