Black-notched Soldier Fly
S1, Female, Spines, dorsal
Ellura
Black-notched Soldier Fly
S1, Female, Antennae
 
                      
Black-notched Soldier Fly (Australoactina incisuralis)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Flies (Diptera)
Family: Soldier Fly (Stratiomyidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Black-notched Soldier Fly (Australoactina incisuralis)
This Photo:     🔍S1, Female, Spines, profile🔎

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~7mm long female.
a. Has short pubescence on the eyes.
b. A green shimmer to the red thorax (bronze?)
c. Eyes slightly wider apart than males
d. Rounded body, rather than parallel sides
e. 6 thoracic spines - which are hard to photograph clearly because they are covered in hair.
f. Very pale proboscis
h. Very large halteres
i. Notice the anal appendages, peculiar to Soldier Flies. We thought they were cerci.
Tony Daley said "The name applies to the abdominal tergite 'incisions' (apices) being black". Which is visible here.

Copyright © 2023-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 18-May-2023
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.