Unidentified Long-legged fly at Merimbula, NSW
Identification history
| Dolichopodidae (family) | 10 Jan 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 31 Dec 2020 | KylieWaldon |
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User's notes
This is the prettiest mosquito ever. it was irridescent green with yellow legs! its sitting on a bridge hand rail over brackish back water
1 comment
KylieWaldon
wrote:
2 Jan 2021
someone suggested this may be a long legged fly, even though I thought it was a mosquito. this is its back end
Location information
- Coordinates 149.916167-36.883290
- Places Merimbula, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 31 Dec 2020 07:30 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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KylieWaldon NatureMapr South Coast Dolichopodidae (family) Long-legged Flies (Dolichopodidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Dolichopodidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified Long-legged fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1421m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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