Hover fly at Dunlop, ACT
Identification history
| Melangyna viridiceps | 2 Mar 2021 | KimPullen | ||
| Simosyrphus grandicornis | 5 Jul 2020 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
On flowers over a few hundred metres. Often up to three flies on a single flower. There was a significant size difference between some of them (photo 4). Not sure if this indicates different species.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.998000-35.236790
- Altitude 620.7m
- Places Dunlop, ACT
Sighting information
- 197 Abundance
- 16 Jun 2020 12:27 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Insects Hover flies (Syrphidae) True flies (Diptera) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Melangyna viridiceps Scientific name
- Hover fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1522.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- 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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