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Family Micropezidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Orange Stilt-legged Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 10mm
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- Flies in this family Micropezidae 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
Orange Stilt-legged Fly has a brown head and orange thorax. Legs are brown
to orange brown in colours. Wings are patterned with white strips on dark
brown. Abdomen is black to dark brown.
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- Pictures were taken in
Brisbane Koala Bushlands near Burbank on Jan 2008. The fly was just wandering on
grasses. Its wing patterns look like an ant's narrow waist and abdomen.
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fly walked like an ant too, sometime with jumping action. It might try to
mimic the Jumper Ant. It did not
fly away even with our very close disturbs. It just walked and jumped onto
another plant.
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- We usually found the fly walking on grass leaves.
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- Reference:
- 1. On
the Fly, The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families CD Rom
- Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. Brisbane : CBIT & ABRS.
- 2. 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.
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