Long-antenna Lauxaniid Fly - Rhagadolyra magnicornis

Family Lauxaniidae

This page contains pictures and information about Long-antenna Lauxaniid Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

 

Body length 8mm

 

This  Lauxaniid Fly is easily recognized by its long antenna. As most other  Lauxaniid Flies, it is pale orange in colour with clean wings. There are the pale white strips on thorax and on eyes.

 

 

 

 

Above pictures were taken on  Alexandra Hill during early spring 2004. For some reasons, one of the fly's wing was broken.

 

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Reference:

1. Flies - family Lauxaniidae - lifeunseen.com, by Nick Monaghan

2. Insects of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p773, Fig.39.30H.

3. On the Fly, The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families CD Rom - Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. Brisbane : CBIT & ABRS. 

4. Species Rhagadolyra magnicornis (Malloch, 1926) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory. 

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