Metz's Stiletto Fly
Female, ventral
Bare-headed Stiletto Fly
Female, dorsal
| Metz's Stiletto Fly Female, ventral | | Bare-headed Stiletto Fly Female, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Stiletto Fly (Therevidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Pale Stiletto Fly (Neodialineura litura) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Shaun Winterton for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: We thought this was a Nanexila sp. After Shaun id'ed it for us, we looked at his paper and found different genders of the same species can be different colours. So have changed our id's of the other Therevids here until we have time to review them against his paper. | |||||
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