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Family Syrphidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Wasp-mimic Hover
Flies in subfamily Microdontinae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- The hover flies in Subfamily Microdontinae have antennae directed anteriorly and usually
long, but diverse in structure in different species. Head is board. The eyes
are bare and wide apart in both sex. They are stoutly built, closely resembling bees or wasps.
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- Hover Flies in this subfamily can be distinguished by its wing vein
patterns. They have short wings with M1+2 and M3+4 bent upwards and r-m
cross-vein before meddle of median cell.
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- The larvae are oval and convex dorsally, soft and flat ventrally, could be
mistaken as mollusks. They are found in ants' nests, where the larvae live as scavengers or predators.
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- All species are not commonly seen. We saw each species only one or two
times.
- Waisted Wasp-mimic Hover Fly
  - Microdon variegatus, body length 6mm
- This Brown Wasp-mimic Hover
Fly is distinguished by its extremely long 3rd antenna segment and the pedunculate wasp-like
abdomen. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Brown Wasp-mimic Hover Fly
- Microdon barringtonensis, body length 10mm
- Found this Brown Wasp-mimic
Hover Fly in Karawatha Forest near the Lagoon, Sep 2008. We have more
photos of this fly here.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p763.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p368.
- 3. Family SYRPHIDAE -
Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog - Web Version, by F. Christian Thompson & J.R. Vockeroth, 2007.
- 4. Syrphidae - Graeme's Insects of Townsville, Australia.
- 5. A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China - XIN-YUE CHENG & F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON, Zootaxa 1879: 21–48 (2008).
- 6. Revision of Australian Syrphidae (Diptera). Part
I - Ferguson, E.W. 1926, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 51: 137-183 [160].
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