Robber fly at Wallaroo, NSW
Identification history
| Apothechyla sp. (genus) | 22 Nov 2019 | GregD | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Nov 2019 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Tempted to include this with the previous sighting but puzzled by the orange stripe on the abdomen. Hard to estimate the number. There were lots of robber flies along the whole fence line but hard to tell the species until looking more closely on the computer. I think I've identified three of four types.
1 comment
GregD
wrote:
22 Nov 2019
Most species of Apothechyla show sexual dimorphism in the abdominal pattern, females having the orange tergite(s). The species in the ACT is probably A. carbo, but without specimens it is difficult to identify to species.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.006047-35.192465
- Altitude 540.5m
- Maps Jarramlee-West MacGregor Grasslands
- Places Wallaroo, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Nov 2019 12:09 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects True flies (Diptera) Robber flies (Asilidae) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Apothechyla sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Robber fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1553.27m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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