Melangyna viridiceps

Hover fly at Acton, ACT

Melangyna viridiceps at Acton, ACT - 14 Apr 2019
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Identification history

Melangyna viridiceps 23 Apr 2019 jgl
Melangyna sp. (genus) 22 Apr 2019 KimPullen
Unidentified 22 Apr 2019 AlisonMilton

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jgl wrote:
   24 Apr 2019
A colleague in Canada has informed me that most of the Melangyna (Austrosyphus) spp. (at least all the ones around Canberra), have been determined to all be the one species, of which M. (A.) viridiceps (Macquart, 1847) has priority. Not sure when this will be published, but we can probably assume that we don't need to worry about differentiating M. (A.) collatus and M. (A.) damastor.

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  • 1 Abundance
  • 14 Apr 2019 12:23 PM Recorded on
  • AlisonMilton Recorded by

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  • 12mm to 25mm Animal size

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