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HelenCross
wrote:
20 Nov 2025
No worries Tim - Bryan and I are in the same office so that helps!
Damaromyia sp. (genus)
TimL
wrote:
20 Nov 2025
@HelenCross Thanks for taking the time to follow up the sighting and providing the identification Helen. Tim
Damaromyia sp. (genus)
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
Damaromyia sp. (genus)
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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