Platystomatidae – Signal Fly – Zelandortalis gregi

Order Diptera; Suborder Brachycera; Family Platystomatidae (Signal Flies); Scientific name: Zelandortalis gregi;

Common name: Signal Fly; Alternative common name: Boatman Fly – Riding on a Rowe Beetle Creophilus erythrocephalus Family Staphylinidae whilst the beetle is feeding on fly larvae from a lump of dung - Distribution in Australia: southern Western Australia and eastern New South Wales – Photographed: in October in Star Swamp Reserve, in Perth, Western Australia.