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Fungus fly

Tapeigaster luteipennis

Photo by Mark Ridgway
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

About 20mm long; very thick femurs; red eyes and lines on thorax; tinted wings; legs and posture remind me of robber flies.

Habitat:

On very dry mushrooms in dry eucalyptus plantation on highway median strip.

Notes:

Probably wondering how to make some gravy to go with these very dry fungi.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (11)

What a great fly. It looks like his body was stuck on someone else's legs
Overall that is about right +/- 2 ? They are certainly big compared to other flies that hang around fungi.
Great shots Argy! Is this really 2 cm long? That's huge for a fungus fly.
What a weird looking fly. Great photos
Thanks Mark for your fast reply. Have a look at the ALA map for this species and you will see that your record is the first for Victoria! ALA needs your record (:->!
Thanks Ken... checking it out now. I have uploaded my special ones to ALA as Mark Ridgway.
Hi Argy Bee. I just spotted your recent addition of a Fungus fly and thought I would contact you. I work at Museum Victoria in Melbourne and I have just released a new Australian Citizen Science website called BowerBird. What caught my eye was that someone to the west of Melbourne recently uploaded images of another species of the fungus fly Tapiegaster cinctus on a giant fungus. The BowerBird URL to this record is: http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/1361 Thought you may want to have a look. If you are interested in learning more about BowerBird then contact me and I will send you some information. BowerBird is now an Australian equivalent to the wonderful Project Noah -- but it does a few things differently. Importantly, all of the data on BowerBird gets uploaded to the Australian National Biodiversity aggregator called Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and is added to that dataset and publicly displayed. This dataset is then uploaded to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This gives great residual value to contributions like your. My contact details as : [email protected] Cheers Ken
Thanks J. Just wondering why it would need Arni Schwarzenegger thighs to deal with a life on mushrooms.

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