Trupanea (genus)
Fruit fly or seed fly at Kambah, ACT
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| Trupanea (genus) | MichaelMulvaney | 18 Oct 2020 | |
| Trupanea (genus) | HarveyPerkins | 18 Oct 2020 |
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18 Oct 2020
This is Austrotephritis trupanea.
See the following doco:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:dfee0030-6f32-499f-a5a5-de8bb6bbfc4c#overview
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293083291_A_new_Australian_species_of_Austrotephritis_Hancock_Drew_Diptera_Tephritidae_Tephritinae
See the following doco:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:dfee0030-6f32-499f-a5a5-de8bb6bbfc4c#overview
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293083291_A_new_Australian_species_of_Austrotephritis_Hancock_Drew_Diptera_Tephritidae_Tephritinae
19 Oct 2020
Trupanea also appears as a genus name in ALA - https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a735a674-66a3-4ce1-b3f0-3b158d9a644a#overview - and most of the images there look like this sighting. Having said that, I know there are a lot of misidentifications on ALA.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.036646-35.393711
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 15 Oct 2020 05:21 PM Recorded on
- HarveyPerkins Recorded by
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- HarveyPerkins Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Trupanea (genus) Other true flies True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Trupanea (genus) Scientific name
- Fruit fly or seed fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1000.9m Recorded at altitude
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