Giant Blue Robber Fly at Ainslie, ACT
Identification history
| Blepharotes splendidissimus | 7 Jan 2018 | RogerF | ||
| Blepharotes splendidissimus | 7 Jan 2018 | SusanneG |
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User's notes
Giant Blue Robber Fly. Quite skittish. Had to use zoom to take the photo from about 1.5 m away. Only photo I got. I initially though the side showed parasites, but have seen side view photos and that seems to be part of the body.
Photo taken in my backyard, within 150m of given location.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.150484-35.256509
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 7 Jan 2018 04:49 PM Recorded on
- SusanneG Recorded by
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Insects Robber flies (Asilidae) True flies (Diptera) SusanneG Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Blepharotes splendidissimus Scientific name
- Giant Blue Robber Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 566.1m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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