Austrosciapus sp. (genus)

Long-legged fly at Wodonga, VIC

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Identification history

	Austrosciapus sp. (genus)	6 Sep 2021	MichaelMulvaney
	Unidentified	6 Sep 2021	KylieWaldon

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I got this cool mosquito looking insect - it had green eyes and green on its body with iridescent wings. Its flying behaviour caught my attention rather than its colouring which was hard to see.

3 comments

Alburyconservationcompany wrote:

6 Sep 2021

Huge effort @Kyliegw, well done for reaching 1,000 records added to AWNM :)

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

6 Sep 2021

Fantastic effort Kylie - This record of a long legged fly is, like many of your records, one of the few records of this species in the Wodonga-Albury area - you are literally putting species on the map. Long-legged flies are predators on small soft bodied insects like aphids - so this is a good fly to have.

KylieWaldon wrote:

7 Sep 2021

Thank u AWNM and MichaelM. Hard to believe its that many. I don't mind getting bitten by mosquitos if they are this pretty!

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2 Abundance
5 Sep 2021 10:29 AM Recorded on
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Insects Long-legged Flies (Dolichopodidae) True flies (Diptera) KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr

Additional information

5mm to 12mm Animal size
Unknown Gender

Species information

Austrosciapus sp. (genus) Scientific name
Long-legged fly Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 791.2m Recorded at altitude
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