Ant fly at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Parapalaeosepsis plebeia | 5 Dec 2024 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Parapalaeosepsis plebeia | 26 Nov 2024 | WendyEM | ||
| Unverified | 26 Nov 2024 | HelenCross |
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3 comments
RogerF
wrote:
28 Nov 2024
I have been looking at the flowers of this specimen for the last 2 years without seeing anything visiting! But did the sepsid get inside? Tetrathecas are in the same family with hanging bell flowers and are very occasionally visited by bees. One sighting in 5 years!
HelenCross
wrote:
28 Nov 2024
Yes, it did, along with hundreds of Plague Soldier Beetles, so you can add them to the list too
Location information
- Coordinates 149.109557-35.276818
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 26 Nov 2024 11:27 AM Recorded on
- HelenCross Recorded by
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HelenCross Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Parapalaeosepsis plebeia Other true flies True flies (Diptera) Insects
Additional information
- Blueberry Ash Associated plant
- Less than 5mm Animal size
- True Insect on a flower
Species information
- Parapalaeosepsis plebeia Scientific name
- Ant fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 725m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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