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Trupanea (genus)

Fruit fly or seed fly at Kambah, ACT

Trupanea (genus) at Kambah, ACT - 15 Oct 2020 05:21 PM
Trupanea (genus) at Kambah, ACT - 15 Oct 2020 05:21 PM
Trupanea (genus) at Kambah, ACT - 15 Oct 2020 05:21 PM
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Trupanea (genus) 18 Oct 2020 MichaelMulvaney
Trupanea (genus) 18 Oct 2020 HarveyPerkins

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HarveyPerkins wrote:
   18 Oct 2020
This is Austrotephritis trupanea.
See the following doco:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:dfee0030-6f32-499f-a5a5-de8bb6bbfc4c#overview
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293083291_A_new_Australian_species_of_Austrotephritis_Hancock_Drew_Diptera_Tephritidae_Tephritinae
KimPullen wrote:
   19 Oct 2020
Trupanea also appears as a genus name in ALA - https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a735a674-66a3-4ce1-b3f0-3b158d9a644a#overview - and most of the images there look like this sighting. Having said that, I know there are a lot of misidentifications on ALA.

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