Unidentified syrphine hover fly at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Melangyna sp. (genus) | 25 Sep 2020 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Syrphini (tribe) | 8 Aug 2020 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Simosyrphus grandicornis | 20 Jun 2020 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Number is an estimate only. A largish patch of milk weed with flies on most flowers and with as many as four insects on an individual flower.
1 comment
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
8 Aug 2020
I think the last image where the fly has a yellow stripe on the side of its body is Simosyrphus the other images are of Melangyna
Location information
- Coordinates 149.026263-35.240321
- Altitude 622.2m
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 150 Abundance
- 17 Jun 2020 11:29 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Syrphini (tribe) Hover flies (Syrphidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Additional information
- Milkweed Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Syrphini (tribe) Scientific name
- Unidentified syrphine hover fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1011.57m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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