Senostoma sp. (genus)
A parasitoid tachinid fly at Bruce, ACT
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| Senostoma tessellatum | AlisonMilton | 31 Oct 2020 |
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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.
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.
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
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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- AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Senostoma sp. (genus) Bristle Flies (Tachinidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
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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