Nemestrinidae – Tangle-veined Fly – Trichophthalma thomsoni

Order Diptera; Suborder Brachycera; Family Nemestrinidae (Tangle-veined Flies); Scientific name: Trichophthalma thomsoni; 

Common name: Tangle-veined Fly; Alternative common name: Nemestrinid Fly –Feeding on Tea-tree Leptospermum sp. flowers - Distribution in Australia: recorded from southern Western Australia, south-eastern South Australia, eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland – Photographed: in September in Dryandra Forest in Wheatbelt Region of Western Australia.