Australian Fruit Fly at Undefined Area
Identification history
| Austrotephritis poenia | 2 Jan 2024 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Austrotephritis sp. (genus) | 1 Jan 2024 | RogerF | ||
| Cardiacera sp. (genus) | 1 Jan 2024 | MiaThurgate |
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Insect Pollinator Survey Sighting
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RogerF
wrote:
1 Jan 2024
Nursery brood visitor of Asteraceae. Males occupy a flower as ‘territory’. Females visit and lay their eggs in stem and larvae induce galls.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.129122-35.226271
- Maps Crace Grasslands
- Places Mitchell, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 29 Dec 2023 09:17 AM Recorded on
- MiaThurgate Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Other true flies True flies (Diptera) MiaThurgate Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Austrotephritis poenia Scientific name
- Australian Fruit Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1480m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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