Wingless Soldier Fly at Torrens, ACT
Identification history
| Boreoides subulatus | 29 Apr 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 29 Apr 2021 | TheCrabLord |
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I am not sure what this is, I have literally never seen one my entire life and when I tried to find information on it online nothing came up so could someone please let me know what it is? :)
2 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
29 Apr 2021
They are quite common acrossCanberra, and appear for a few weeks in late Autumn. Only the females are wingless. The larvae grow in places like compost heaps. The female is an amazing walker and seems to climb up walls waiting for the males with wings . There is a bit of information on them at
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/wingless-soldier-fly-boreoides-subulatus/
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/wingless-soldier-fly-boreoides-subulatus/
TheCrabLord
wrote:
29 Apr 2021
Oh wow, thank you so much! Crazy I haven't seen them before now! So all of the ones here I have seen are female, haven't seen a male yet :)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.088392-35.376507
- Places Torrens, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 29 Apr 2021 03:58 PM Recorded on
- TheCrabLord Recorded by
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Insects Other true flies True flies (Diptera) TheCrabLord Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Walls, fences, deck rails Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Boreoides subulatus Scientific name
- Wingless Soldier Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1824.81m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
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