Grey Flesh Fly
Female, profile
Grey Flesh Fly
Dorsal
Animals
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| Grey Flesh Fly Female, profile | | Grey Flesh Fly Dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Flesh Fly (Sarcophagidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Grey Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga aurifrons)| This Photo: | 🔍Female, Face🔎 | Thank you Lorin Timaeus for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere ~9mm long. Lorin said "Close to the eyes there is a long bristle bent forwards (proclinate) in Females. Males do not have them. Eye distance is hard to judge in Sarcophaga, only slight differences between the genders." Similar Species: Fleshfly-mimicking Bristle Fly (Exorista sp)
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