Trichopsidea oestracea
3 Tangle-vein fly at Coree, ACT
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| Trichopsidea oestracea | MichaelMulvaney | 18 Jun 2021 | |
| Unverified | Ct1000 | 3 Dec 2020 |
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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.
2 comments
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.
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?
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
- Ct1000 Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- Insects Tangle-vein flies (Nemestrinidae) True flies (Diptera) Ct1000 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Trichopsidea oestracea
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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