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Family Micropezidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black Stilt-legged Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- Flies in this family have very long legs, although the front pair is
usually shorter. Their body is slender with patterned wings. They usually mimic
either wasp or ant. This
Black Stilt-legged Fly is black in colour with two write strips on each wings.
All legs are black except the smaller front pair with write tips.
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- This fly was found near a small pond in Yugarapul Park. It was walking
around on a large leaf seems looking for something. It kept flicking its wings
and front pair of legs, trying to convince us that it were a black
wasp or ichneumonid wasp.
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- The larvae live in decaying wood and other vegetable matter.
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- We found them a few times, usually on board leaves low above ground.
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- The larvae live in decaying wood and other plants matter.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p773, Fig.39.29A.
- 2. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 3. On
the Fly, The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families CD Rom
- Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. Brisbane : CBIT & ABRS.
- 4. Review of the Australian stilt flies (Diptera : Micropezidae) with a phylogenetic analysis of the family - David K. McAlpine, 1998, Invertebrate Taxonomy 12(1) 55 - 134.
- 5. Mimegralla australica - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks, 2004.
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