Apiocera moerens
Flower-loving Fly at Reid, ACT
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| Apiocera moerens | MichaelMulvaney | 8 Mar 2018 | |
| Apiocera moerens | DaveFerg | 7 Mar 2018 | |
| Apiocera sp. (genus) | JanetRussell | 25 Feb 2018 |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
8 Mar 2018
First Canberra Nature Map sighting of this genus and no records in the Atlas of Living Australia of this species in the ACT
6 comments
23 Feb 2018
Looks like an Apiocera species (Apioceridae) to me. Great find. I haven't seen one in the ACT yet (and apparently nor has anyone else on CNM). My closest was out near West Wyalong.
24 Feb 2018
I live in a 9th floor apartment and I wonder sometimes if the flies I get here come in on the wind on their last legs - they always seem to be fairly inert on the balcony floor when I see them.
26 Feb 2018
Very interesting. I've set up the taxonomy. A quote from ALA: "They occur mostly in dry sandy habitats in the deserts..... ". See:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5c8f2ae7-8aa5-4639-a02d-77166ba2e88e
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5c8f2ae7-8aa5-4639-a02d-77166ba2e88e
26 Feb 2018
Yes, I saw that. I then went to ALA and the sightings include coastal. I didn’t know what to think so I decided to add it and see what happened.
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5c8f2ae7-8aa5-4639-a02d-77166ba2e88e
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5c8f2ae7-8aa5-4639-a02d-77166ba2e88e
26 Feb 2018
The ALA does not give a record of where a species occurs, but where they are seen, so there may be a bias in the data. That is, there are a lot of observers along the east coast of Australia, but few in the desert regions.
8 Mar 2018
There is another species of Apiocera in the ACT, Apiocera striativentris that occurs along the Murrumbidgee River. We have just published a detailed description of that species immature stages, link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323445430_Immature_stages_of_the_Australian_flower-loving_fly_Apiocera_striativentris_Diptera_Apioceridae
Location information
- Coordinates 149.139000-35.287900
- Altitude 539.0m
- Places Reid, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 5 Feb 2018 04:20 PM Recorded on
- JanetRussell Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- Significant Insects Flower-loving flies (Apioceridae) True flies (Diptera) JanetRussell Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Apiocera moerens
Species information
- Apiocera moerens Scientific name
- Flower-loving Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 622.8m Recorded at altitude
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