Signal Fly

Family: Platystomatidae

Species: Loxoneuroides variipennis Hendel, 1914

Location: Cedar Creek, Qld, Australia (4520)

 

These little guys eat poo, literally. They have a large proboscus presumably just for this purpose, and tend to congregate around mammalian faeces.

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Uploaded on February 23, 2008
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