Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Dicondylia
Infraclass: Pterygota
Superorder: Neoptera
Order: Diptera
Suborder: Brachycera
Infraorder: Muscomorpha
Section: Schizophora
Subsection: Calyptratae
Family: Tachinidae
Genus: Chaetophthalmus
Species: C. bicolor
Binomial name: Chaetophthalmus bicolor
Synonyms: Ballardia pallipes; Ochromyia nudistylum, Chaetophthalmus nudistylum, Chaetophthalmus pallipes, Ballardia pallipes, Ochromyia nudistylum, Micropalpus bicolor.
Chaetophthalmus bicolor is a small fly (7-8 mm in length) and has a distinctive bicoloured abdomen.
A Chaetophthalmus bicolor feeding on nectar from a flower of the shrub Chamelaucium uncinatum in the Tupare Gardens, New Plymouth. March
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