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This is a fairly common "picture-winged" fly at this location. It just can't be still. It is in constant motion. The movements it makes sound like that described for the boatman fly (Pogonortalis doclea | Platystomatidae): "a very distinctive wiggling dance flapping its wings when defending its territory" or "a little dance flapping its wings while walking in a circle". However that species does not resemble the metallic one in this spotting.
Observed here on the upperside of a taro (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) leaf in a large semi-urban yard & garden next to a disturbed patch of remnant lowland forest in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
Spotted on Mar 15, 2013
Submitted on Mar 13, 2014
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