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Hejor1 wrote:
25 Jun 2025
@KylieWaldon happens to me all the time!
Muscidae (family)
KylieWaldon wrote:
25 Jun 2025
I didn't Hejor1. I will try and get a pic off this one and put it up, but I only noticed it when editing the photos! excellent camo!
Muscidae (family)
Hejor1 wrote:
22 Jun 2025
@KylieWaldon there's a small brown crab spider on the tip of the leaf, did you happen to get any other angles of the spider?
Muscidae (family)
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
21 Jun 2025
A male
Boreoides subulatus
WendyEM wrote:
21 Jun 2025
aaah .....I did wonder about those fat front legs! thanks Kim. Tapeigaster " .... can be recognised by the combination of the thorax dorsally striped, the mid and fore femora noticeably inflated (compared to the hind femora),..." SOURCE (21/06/2025) https://tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com/hexapoda/insectsoftasmaniadiptera/suborder-brachycera/infraorder-cyclorrhapha/heleomyzidae/genus-tapeigaster/tapeigaster-annulipes/
I gather they have an interest in fungi - the pictures on this reference are sitting on fungi, like mine Tapeigaster sp. = Fungus flies
Tapeigaster sp. (genus)

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