Banded-wing March Fly - Scaptia (Pseudoscione) concolor

Family Tabanidae

This page contains pictures and information about Banded-wing March Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 10mm

 

 

This March Fly is uniform brown in colour. Antenna and all legs are brown. The abdomen is golden brown. Eyes are hairy, ocelli are fully developed. Wings veins are yellow-brown, R4 angulate with minor or trace of appendix.  

 

 

Wings have two dark bands. Veins yellowish brown with R4 angulated with trace of appendix. Cell R5 closed at margin. 

 

 

We saw this March Fly many times around bushlands in Brisbane. 

 

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Reference:

1. The Tabanidae (Diptera) of Australia III. Subfamily Pangoninae, tribe Scionini and supplement to Pangoniini - Mackerras, I.M., 1960, Australian Journal of Zoology, 8: 1-152.

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