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Family Dolichopodidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Blue-greened Long-legged
Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 5mm, female
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- This medium size Long-legged Fly is metallic blue-green in colour. Head
and body is dusted with dense silvery pruinose.
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- Male
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- The Long-legged Fly has the wing vein M branched to M1 and M2, M1arc
with round right angle bend elbow-shaped to apex. Vein m-cu is
straight. Wings with distinct pale brown markings distinctly joined
together across anterior margin of wing. The join of wing band extended to
R4+5. Haltere is yellow in colour.
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- We found this long Long-legged Fly in our backyard as well as in Karawatha
Forest.
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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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