Empididae (family)
1 Dance fly at Cotter River, ACT
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| Empididae (family) | KimPullen | 21 Feb 2019 | |
| Unverified | JudithRoach | 21 Feb 2019 |
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User's notes
Couldn't find the robber fly category but I suspect it's a couple of the smaller kind.
4 comments
21 Feb 2019
Judith, great shots of a mating pair with the female gorging on the male's 'nuptial gift', a small fly of another kind.
21 Feb 2019
Thanks. Hope you all don't mind I'm not so hot on the ID side. Memory like a sieve - got hit with a post viral thing, find it hard to retain facts :-(. Enjoying going hunting with my camera though :-)
23 Feb 2019
It's great to have you behind the camera Judith. We all contribute with our own skills.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.766907-35.467928
- Altitude 1474.9m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 20 Feb 2019 04:58 PM Recorded on
- JudithRoach Recorded by
Collections
- JudithRoach Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Empididae (family) Other true flies True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Empididae (family) Scientific name
- Dance fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1474.9m Recorded at altitude
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