Senostoma sp. (genus)

A parasitoid tachinid fly at Bruce, ACT

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Identification history

	Senostoma sp. (genus)	23 Nov 2020	MichaelMulvaney
	Senostoma tessellatum	31 Oct 2020	AlisonMilton

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jgl wrote:

1 Nov 2020

Based on Barraclough's 1992 Dexiini revision, this doesn't conform with the longipes species-group (of which S. tessellatum is a member) because of the darkened cross-veins mid-wing (called 'r-m' in the paper). However, there's not enough visible for me to ID it past genus.

I really think we need to step back the species-level ID's for a few genera, this one included. There's a mind-bogling amount of undescribed species in this genus from the ACT, and the characters you need to separate them are never visible in field photos. Even falling back to the species-groups from Barraclough's 1992 revision might not be conservative enough because you usually can't see the face and pleura well-enough. I'd recommend collapsing all Senostoma and especially Prosena (a taxonomic nightmare of a genus) species entries back to just genus.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.091162 -35.249595
Altitude 639.5m
Maps Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
Places Bruce, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
29 Oct 2020 11:20 AM Recorded on
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Insects Bristle Flies (Tachinidae) True flies (Diptera) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Senostoma sp. (genus) Scientific name
A parasitoid tachinid fly Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 757m Recorded at altitude
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Australian Capital Territory

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