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Family Dolichopodidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Dolichopodid Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 5mm, male, notice the 360° twisting of the male postabdomen.
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- This fly is metallic green and
its wings are transparent with black pattern. They are common in Brisbane.
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- Male
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- They are usually found resting on board green smooth leaves, fly back to
original position after disturbing.
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- Female
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- The Long-legged Fly has the wing vein M branched to M1 and M2, M1arc
with round angle bend to apex. Vein m-cu is straight. Wings with
distinct transverse dark brown markings distinctly joined together across
anterior margin of wing. The join of wing band extended to R4+5.
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- Haltere is
yellow in colour.
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- This species look very similar to the other species Austrosciapus
proximus. Both species are common in Brisbane. We may have mixed
them up in the two web pages.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife
of Tropical North Queensland - Queensland Museum Publications 2000,
p106.
- 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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