Small heads and strange lives: studying the Acroceridae of New Zealand.

A Te Papa Collections Technician aims to create comprehensive species descriptions and distribution records of the Acroceridae, or “small-headed flies”, of New Zealand. Here he shares what he has learned about these strange flies
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/11/06/small-heads-and-strange-lives-studying-the-acroceridae-of-new-zealand/ #globalmuseum #flies #museums

I see your Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and raise you a Mallochomacquartia vexata.

Seen yesterday in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, New Zealand. It's an endemic New Zealand tachinid fly that's an insect parasitoid and pollinator.

(Like many common NZ native insects, there is notably little about its natural history anywhere on the internet.)

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/310322069

#Diptera #nz #iNaturalistNZ #flies #entomology