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HelenCross
wrote:
20 Nov 2025
No worries Tim - Bryan and I are in the same office so that helps!
Pachygastrinae (sub-family)
TimL
wrote:
20 Nov 2025
@HelenCross Thanks for taking the time to follow up the sighting and providing the identification Helen. Tim
Pachygastrinae (sub-family)
HelenCross
wrote:
20 Nov 2025
Have shown these to Dr Bryan Lessard (aka Bry the Fly Guy) and he has identified them as Pachygastrinae soldier flies, near the genus Damaromyia
Pachygastrinae (sub-family)
KimberiRP
wrote:
4 Nov 2025
Good find and great images! It's possibly an Empis, the genus that the family Empididae is founded on.
Empididae (family)
Significant sightings
- Panops conspicuus at Jerrawangala, NSW
- Dacus (genus) at Narrabundah, ACT
- Sphaeniscus atilius at Melba, ACT
- Microconops (genus) at Campbell, ACT
- Euprosopia subula
- Panops conspicuus at Wilsons Valley, NSW
- Sapromyza alboatra
- Sapromyza riparia at Bungendore, NSW
- Anacanthella (genus) at McKellar, ACT
- Luzonimyia cineracea
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