Sapromyza nr. virescens – Macquart (1851) described virescens from a female specimen (currently placed under Sapromyza in the catalogs). The fly had a greenish-black body, contrasted by an orange head, antennae and legs (excepting the blackish tarsi). The wings yellowish. The description lacks details of chaetotaxy, the species also was not considered by Malloch in his review of the Australian Sapromyza s.l., so genus cannot be confidently assigned to Macquart’s species. The fly below has head and thorax chaetotaxy agreeing with Sapromyza s.s. – we also record similar looking flies under ‘Sapromyza’ metallica and Meiosimyza sp. #3, both differing from the fly below by their Meiosimyza chaetotaxy (i.e. mesoscutum with a presutural pair of dorsocentral bristles).
Mid March 2021
“Inala” Lunawanna, Bruny Island
Photos KE
