Trichopsidea oestracea

3 Tangle-vein fly at Coree, ACT

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Identification history

	Trichopsidea oestracea	18 Jun 2021	MichaelMulvaney
	Unverified	3 Dec 2020	Ct1000

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Found this little thing riding on my hat making a buzzing noise. Tried to take a photo and it flew off to go and sit on some grass type plant. It remained very still both initially on the hat and then on the grass. At a guess I think its not a bee, maybe some kind of hover fly but I really had 0 idea how to class it and therefore where to look.

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michael.batley wrote:

4 Dec 2020

It has only one pair of wings, so you are quite right. It is a fly. I am not sufficiently familiar with bee flies to suggest a genus, but you might find something similar if you search for images of Bombyliidae.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

18 Jun 2021

This tangle-vein fly is rarely recorded (there are only 3 records in the Atlas of Living Australia). It parasitises grasshoppers so maybe you can hire yourself out as a grasshopper impersonator or is that iminsectator?

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Location information

Coordinates 148.945846 -35.267473
Maps Stony Creek
Places Coree, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
3 Dec 2020 03:24 PM Recorded on
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Insects Tangle-vein flies (Nemestrinidae) True flies (Diptera) Ct1000 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Trichopsidea oestracea Scientific name
Tangle-vein fly Common name
Not Sensitive
Rare or uncommon native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 892.7m Recorded at altitude
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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania