March fly at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Scaptia patula | 29 Dec 2016 | DaveFerg | ||
| Scaptia patula | 29 Dec 2016 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Dec 2016 | JudithRoach |
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User's notes
Having a drink and a preen on a wet road in the Botanical Gardens.
1 comment
JudithRoach
wrote:
22 Dec 2016
On the amateur entomology site on facebook one similar came up and they thought scaptia. This looks right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaptia_auriflua
Location information
- Coordinates 149.109632-35.276891
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Dec 2016 09:15 AM Recorded on
- JudithRoach Recorded by
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Insects March or Horse flies (Tabanidae) True flies (Diptera) JudithRoach Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Scaptia patula Scientific name
- March fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 625.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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