Austrosciapus sp. (genus)
Long-legged fly at Wodonga, VIC
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| Austrosciapus sp. (genus) | MichaelMulvaney | 6 Sep 2021 | |
| Unverified | KylieWaldon | 6 Sep 2021 |
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I got this cool mosquito looking insect - it had green eyes and green on its body with iridescent wings. Its flying behaviour caught my attention rather than its colouring which was hard to see.
3 comments
6 Sep 2021
Huge effort @Kyliegw, well done for reaching 1,000 records added to AWNM :)
6 Sep 2021
Fantastic effort Kylie - This record of a long legged fly is, like many of your records, one of the few records of this species in the Wodonga-Albury area - you are literally putting species on the map. Long-legged flies are predators on small soft bodied insects like aphids - so this is a good fly to have.
7 Sep 2021
Thank u AWNM and MichaelM. Hard to believe its that many. I don't mind getting bitten by mosquitos if they are this pretty!
Location information
- Coordinates 146.901885-36.139094
- Places Wodonga, VIC
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 5 Sep 2021 10:29 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Collections
- KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr Austrosciapus sp. (genus) Long-legged Flies (Dolichopodidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Austrosciapus sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Long-legged fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 791.2m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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5 / 7
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location