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Family Lauxaniidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Orange and Black Vinegar Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 6mm
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- This fly is easily found in the dense forest in Yugarapul Park. Its
head is dark blue in colour, face is white with a pair of dark red eyes. Its
antenna are also dark blue. It has a orange thorax and dark blue abdomen. Its
wings are clean or slightly yellowish-brown.
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- The fly is usually found resting on leaves about a meter about
ground.
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- Their larvae are believe living among fallen leaves and feeding on rotting
plant materials and fungi.
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- On Oct 2012, we found a large group of them resting on a small area on
Anstead Forest on a dre creek bed.
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- Reference:
- 1. Australian Insects, An Introductory Handbook - Keith C. McKeown,
1945, p231.
- 2. Flies - family Drosophilidae
- lifeunseen.com by Nick Monaghan.
- 3. Lauxaniidae (Lauxaniid Flies) - Save Our Waterways Now, 2008.
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