Trichophthalma laetilinea
Tangled Vein Fly at Acton, ACT
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| Trichophthalma laetilinea | 15 Oct 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Trichophthalma laetilinea | 15 Oct 2018 | RogerF |
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Possibly a hairy bee fly, except that it had distinct markings on the thorax. The fly was observed for around 2 minutes and it was noticeable that its wings were never still and moved so fast that the camera/flash didn't highlight them.
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RogerF
wrote:
16 Oct 2018
I sent the fly into David Yeates at ANIC where it was identified as a tangled vein fly by his PhD student, Xuancun Li, who is doing a PhD on Nemestrinidae.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.105641-35.275922
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 13 Oct 2018 12:32 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- TimL Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Trichophthalma laetilinea Tangle-vein flies (Nemestrinidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Trichophthalma laetilinea Scientific name
- Tangled Vein Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 685.41m Recorded at altitude
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6 / 7
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