Long-legged flies have metallic green or coppery. They are very small insect about 1.8-10 mm of body length. There are different characteristics between male and female especially genitalia was found in male only.
In general, Adult and larvae plays as predator which is feed on soft body invertebrate.
Adult can found in sandy beach, leaves, rock, mangroves and trunk while maggot or larvae lived in moist-soil closed to swamp, stream etc.
These habitats were used to breeding as well as feeding it trend to found invertebrate such as culicid larvae, chironomid and ceratopogonid