Native Drone Fly
Male, Profile, In Flight
Bee-mimicking Hover Fly
S10, Female, dorsal
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| Native Drone Fly Male, Profile, In Flight | | Bee-mimicking Hover Fly S10, Female, dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Hover Fly (Syrphidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Native Drone Fly (Eristalinus punctulatus)| This Photo: | Male, Face, In Flight | Thank you Dr Martin Hauser for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and elsewhere Males & females are similar size, ~10mm long. The eyes on males touch, whereas with female the eyes are spread apart. Incredible polka-dot yellow eyes! Dr Simon Grove (when referring to these & Beautiful Hover Flies) said "their larvae are at least semiaquatic, eg in ditches, organic mud, wet rotting vegetation perhaps." Given our semi-arid environment, we surmise they were raised either in nearby damns (~3kms away) or the river (~11kms). This is a similar situation to large quantity of Odonata we find here.
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