A Picture-winged Fly, Delphinia Picta (Fabricius)
From Entomology Circulars.
Several of the native picture-winged flies in the family Otitidae often are confused with fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. While the females of most species of Tephritidae oviposit in living, healthy plant tissue and their larvae live and feed in various parts of the plant, the larvae of most species of Otitidae are saprophagic, although a few, such as Tritoxa flexa (Wiedemann) and Tetanops myopaeformis (Roder), attack living plant tissue. …read more
