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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	Flies (Diptera)
	Family:	Bee Fly (Bombyliidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Pointed Bee Fly (Australiphthiria sp ES01)
	This Photo:	🔍Male, dorsal🔎
	Thank you Anthony Paul for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere We thought these two were different species (they still may be) but saw an photo on-line of two breeding and the males don't have the yellow back. The male also has eyes closer together than the female (quite typical of flies).
	Copyright © 2014-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 01-Oct-2014
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.