Small Black Fly - Neomyia sp.

Family Muscidae

This page contains pictures and information about Small Black Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 6mm 

 

This little fly has wing vein M1+2 strongly bent forwards with angle and reaching R4+5. We believed is is the Neomyia sp.  

 

 

Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest near the Frog Hollow on Mar 2012.

 

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Reference:

1. Key to the Australasian and Oceanian genera of Muscidae (Diptera) - Márcia Souto Couri, Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. 

2. Studies on Australian Muscidae (Diptera). IV. A revision of the subfamilies Muscinae and Stomoxyinae - AC Pont, Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 21(21) 129 - 296, 1973. 

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