Dolichopodidae (family)
Unidentified Long-legged fly at Michelago, NSW
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| Dolichopodidae (family) | MichaelMulvaney | 4 Feb 2019 | |
| Lucilia cuprina | MichaelMulvaney | 26 Jan 2019 | |
| Unverified | Illilanga | 26 Nov 2018 |
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4 comments
4 Feb 2019
Thanks JGL -The short hairs on the back suggested to me sheep blowfly - but would defer to your id.
4 Feb 2019
I realise, now looking at it, how hard it is to communicate an intuitive 'gestalt' about a particular group - objectively its quite hard to pick out obvious characters here. The wing venation is o.o.f so that it actually looks similar to a calyptrate.... The most striking things for me are the depression in the head between the eyes, and the antenna (the arista is much longer relative to the last antennal segment). The aristae of Lucilia are plumose (brush or comb-like), rather than practically bare as they are here. But this is a pretty robust Dolichopodid...
Location information
- Coordinates 149.154904-35.780794
- Maps Illilanga & Baroona
- Places Michelago, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 26 Oct 2017 12:38 PM Recorded on
- Illilanga Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- Illilanga Completed Illilanga Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Dolichopodidae (family) Long-legged Flies (Dolichopodidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Dolichopodidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified Long-legged fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1421m Recorded at altitude
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