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Family Platystomatidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Brown-banded Signal
Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 8mm
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- The fly is dark brown in colour with dark brown banded patterns on wings. Eyes and all legs are
dark brown as well.
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Picture was taken in Wishart near Bulimba Creek on Jan 2011. The fly was
resting on the lower part of a damaged tree trunk.
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- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Platystomatidae (Diptera, Schizophora) with a revision of five genera -
McAlpine, D.K., 1972, The Australian Museum, p140.
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