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Family Syrphidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Grey-banded Hoverflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 8mm
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- This is a small hover fly. There is the black stripe on its face. The
thorax is black in colour with pale stripes. The scutellum is pale brown in
colour. The abdomen is yellow with black and grey cross bands. The grey bands
on abdomen is quite variable.
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- We found many of these Black-banded Hoverflies in Yugarapul
Park during early summer. This is a medium size hover fly mimicking wasp.
This fly even have the narrow waist.
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- Their bodies are slender, from small to medium in
size. On their abdomen there
are the yellow-black bends and narrow waist mimic pattern. The hover flies visit flowers as bees and
wasps. They are usually seen hovering or resting
on flowers.
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- The females lay eggs on leaves. Their larvae are the predator of aphids.
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- This is a small hover fly. There is the black stripe on face. The thorax is
black in colour with pale stripes. The scutellum is pale brown. The abdomen is
yellow with black and grey cross bands.
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- Like most other flies, Hover Flies have very large eyes and short antenna. They have one pair of wings which are clear in colour. On their abdomen there
are the yellow-black bends and narrow waist mimic pattern.
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- We found them a few times along Bulimba Creek
and in Karawatha Forest.
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- We also found this hoverfly on Sept 2011 in Anstead Forest.
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- Reference:
- 1. Black-banded
Hover Fly - lifeunseen.com,
by Nick Monaghan.
- 2. Episyrphus sp.
B - Graeme's Insects of Townsville, Australia.
- 3. Genus
Episyrphus Matsumura in Matsumura & Adachi, 1917 - Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory.
- 4. Episyrphus (Episyrphus) balteatus (De Geer) - Flower Flies (Syrphidae), LIFEDESK COMMUNITY.
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