Dolichopodidae (family)

Unidentified Long-legged fly at Michelago, NSW

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Identification history

Dolichopodidae (family)	4 Feb 2019	MichaelMulvaney
Lucilia cuprina	26 Jan 2019	MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified	26 Nov 2018	Illilanga

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4 comments

jgl wrote:

2 Feb 2019

Doli?

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

4 Feb 2019

Thanks JGL -The short hairs on the back suggested to me sheep blowfly - but would defer to your id.

jgl wrote:

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...

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

4 Feb 2019

Thanks I will also create a Lucilia genus category

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Sighting information

1 Abundance
26 Oct 2017 12:38 PM Recorded on
Illilanga Recorded by

Additional information

5mm to 12mm Animal size

Species information

Dolichopodidae (family) Scientific name
Unidentified Long-legged fly Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-Invasive
Up to 1421m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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