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Jon Sullivan
Jon Sullivan
@joncounts@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

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

A photo of a dark hairy fly sitting on a leaf in the sun.
A photo of a dark hairy fly sitting on a leaf in the sun.
A photo of a dark hairy fly sitting on a leaf in the sun.
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