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Another signal fly photographed at the edge of the coastal forest 20km north of Durban.
ID credit: Dmitry Gavryushin (Diptera.info)
"Oeciotypa hendeli Lindner, 1957 (Platystomatidae, Plastotephritinae). Check Whittington, 2003" p189-192
I append the document link here. The picture and descriptions are a dead on match. This fly had also been collected at Umhlanga coastal bush, 20km down the road.

https://marjon.collections.crest.ac.uk/17296/1/Taxonomic%20revision%20of%20the%20Afrotropical%20Plastotephritinae_Whittington.pdf

on elaeodendron shrubs under a combretum sp tree
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147401113

white stuff was on leaves under the bugs and elsewhere https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147400217

Oh, give us a kiss with that nipple-pink mouth ...

At doggy-doo. Aggressively chased the blow fly on foot a few centimetres.

See other fly: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110814972

See Dog: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110815500