Lesser Bulb Hover Fly
Female, ventral
Half-band Hover Fly
Dorsal
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| Lesser Bulb Hover Fly Female, ventral | | Half-band Hover Fly Dorsal | | ||
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.JPG "Half-band Hover Fly (Melangyna (Austrosyrphus) sp ES01)") | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Hover Fly (Syrphidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Half-band Hover Fly (Melangyna (Austrosyrphus) sp ES01)| This Photo: | 🔍Female, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Stephen Fricker & Tony and Jenny Dominelli (Cinclosoma) 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 There are 6 species in this subgenus. In the past they were generally all lumped into Melangyna viridiceps, but it's now recognised this was just a catch all bucket. There are other similar hover flies to this in SA. A little known one is Eupeodes confrater. Matthew Vosper said "bands curve forwards at the sides" with those. There is also the well know Simosyrphus grandicornis shown below. It has a yellow face as well as a yellow stripe on it's "shoulder" (side of the pronotum). Similar Species: Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis)
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