Senecio Flower Galler Fruit Fly at Melbourne, VIC
Identification history
| Sphenella ruficeps | 19 Sep 2025 | KimberiRP | ||
| Sphenella ruficeps | 18 Sep 2025 | Hejor1 |
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1 comment
WendyEM
wrote:
19 Sep 2025
Thanks for this. I found a fly, looking like this, in a photo I took of a flower. This has helped me ID it.
Location information
- Coordinates 144.973294-37.829969
- Altitude 23.4m
- Places Melbourne, VIC
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 18 Sep 2025 12:45 PM Recorded on
- Hejor1 Recorded by
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Hejor1 NatureMapr Sphenella ruficeps Other true flies True flies (Diptera) Insects
Additional information
- Less than 5mm Animal size
Species information
- Sphenella ruficeps Scientific name
- Senecio Flower Galler Fruit Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 2485.6m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
- 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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