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Acraspisoides helviarta
About 18mm long, looked like a busy wasp searching crevices in timber retaining wall, almost invisible transparent wings, orange legs, very short fly-like antennae.
Suburban back yard.
It was behaving very like a very busy ant.
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Spotted on Nov 11, 2012
Submitted on Nov 11, 2012
3 Comments
I agree there are some ant-like characteristics here. Ashish the Dance flies are visually similar but are almost completely holoarctic. Aus. has almost none! Thanks for the ideas - I'll keep searching.
Can be a Dancefly.
This is bizarre Argy Bee
This looks like a jumping jack ant which I think it may be mimicking
They have orange stingers that look similar to its orange (typical fly) antennae