Muscid fly at Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Helina sp. (genus) | 19 Apr 2020 | jgl | ||
| Unidentified | 3 May 2019 | KimPullen | ||
| Calliphoridae (family) | 20 Jul 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 10 Mar 2018 | PeteWoodall |
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User's notes
Residential garden, within 250 m of this. Property owner wishes location to be kept private.
4 comments
jgl
wrote:
29 Apr 2019
The Muscoidea isn't recognized as valid taxon based on molecular evidence: its a paraphyletic 'grade' of family-level clades. Most authors refer to it as the "muscoid grade" - if you want to implement such a group in the list, it should bear this name. This specimen is also not a calliphorid.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.057496-35.211620
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 13 Nov 2017 04:43 PM Recorded on
- PeteWoodall Recorded by
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Insects True flies (Diptera) Other true flies
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Helina sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Muscid fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 908.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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