Woodlands Historic Park Flies

Fruit Fly (Tephritis poenia) on bud of Sticky Everlasting at Woodlands Historic Park
Fruit Fly (body length about 3mm) on bud of Sticky Everlasting, early Nov.

Classification

from Australian Faunal Directory

Order Diptera - Flies, 8955 named species in Australia at Nov. 2021
Division Cyclorrhapha - Flies having Short Antennae with a Bristle or Arista
Family Tephritidae - Fruit Flies, 293 named species in Australia
Genus Tephritis
Species Tephritis poenia

Reference

DE Hardy and RA I Drew (1996) Revision of the Australian Tephritini (Diptera : Tephritidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10(2) page 369.