Woodlouse Fly: S2, Wing Venation

Class:

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

Order:

Flies (Diptera)

Family:

Woodlouse Fly (Rhinophoridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Woodlouse Fly (Axinia cornuta)

This Photo:

🔍S2, Wing Venation🔎

Thank you Dr Chris Lambkin for identifying and Tony Daley for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
~4mm long with very large orange antennae.
To the naked eye the antennae look like pollen stuck to the face.

This species is

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

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