Signal Fly: Anterior

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Picture-winged Fly (Platystomatidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Signal Fly (Rivellia sp)

This Photo:

Anterior

Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
~4mm long, with a copper-ish metallic body and quite stumpy legs.
But those wings

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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