Trichophthalma costalis
Tangle-vein fly at Mount Ainslie
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| Trichophthalma costalis | 10 Dec 2019 | GregD | ||
| Trichophthalma costalis | 10 Dec 2019 | GregD | ||
| Unverified | 9 Dec 2019 | DPRees125 |
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User's notes
Hovering fly, all same animal, interesting mouth part, all frame grabs form high speed video, which I will provide link to when edited
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DPRees125
wrote:
11 Dec 2019
Video now loaded at https://vimeo.com/378460724 (to play, copy and paste this link into your browser)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.174837-35.279603
- Maps Mount Ainslie Campbell Park Woodland
- Places Majura, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 7 Dec 2019 11:00 AM Recorded on
- DPRees125 Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- DPRees125 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Trichophthalma costalis Tangle-vein flies (Nemestrinidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Trichophthalma costalis Scientific name
- Tangle-vein fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 654.06m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
Quality score
5 / 7
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
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- Additional attributes
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location