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Family Dolichopodidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Large Green
Long Legged Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 6mm, female
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- The Common Green
Long Legged Fly is relatively large among other Long-legged Flies. It has
relatively shout body and bristly legs, This is the largest
Long-legged Fly we found in Brisbane.
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- This fly is commonly seen in our back yard and bushes in Brisbane. Its body is metallic green
with bronze reflection. Its wings are transparent clear.
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- Male
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- Abdomen is slender in males.
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- 360° twisting of the male postabdomen.
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- This Long-legged Fly are common in Brisbane.
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- Female
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- They usually rest on board
leaves looking for small soft-bodied insects. They fly away when disturbed, but
will come back at the same spot a few seconds later.
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- The Long-legged Fly has the wing vein M branched to M1 and M2, M1 with
gentle arc to apex. Vein m-cu is slightly sinuous. Haltere is yellow
in colour.
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- Some individuals have bronze stripes on thorax.
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- Reference:
- 1. A field guide to insects in Australia - By Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey, Reed New Holland, 1996,
p142.
- 2. The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily
- Bickel, Daniel J. 1994, records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 21: 1-394 [174].
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