Common brown robber fly at Franklin Grassland (FRA_5)
Identification history
| Zosteria sp. (genus) | 4 Jul 2024 | GregD | ||
| Asilidae (family) | 13 Apr 2024 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Asilidae (family) | 28 Jan 2024 | KorinneM | ||
| Unidentified | 19 Dec 2023 | JenniM |
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User's notes
Included in pollinator survey # 34346.
The mating pair were disturbed by being photographed and moved together taking several short flights, sometimes landing on flowers....
1 comment
KorinneM
wrote:
28 Jan 2024
Not dragonflies. Robber flies of some sort - mods for that category should be able to identify further if it moves into that category.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.146710-35.207589
- Maps Budjan Galindji (Franklin Grassland) Reserve
- Places Harrison, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 11 Dec 2023 11:44 AM Recorded on
- JenniM Recorded by
Additional information
- Blue Devil Associated plant
- Same species Associated Insect
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Breeding behaviour Insect behaviour on flower
Species information
- Zosteria sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Common brown robber fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1618.7m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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