Wasp-mimicking Rhiniin Fly - Stomorhina discolor
Family Calliphoridae
This page contains pictures and information about Wasp-mimicking Rhiniin Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 6mm
- The fly has the thorax in black colour with blue-green and coppery metallic
reflections, and with dense small bristle-dots.
Abdomen is black-banded on yellow colours mimicking bees or
wasps. There is the apical spot on wings. Legs are yellowish-brown in
colours.
- Most wasp/bee-mimicking flies we found are Hover Flies in the family SYRPHIDAE, initially we thought this fly was a Drone Fly. Later we found out that, it is a blowfly in subfamily Rhiniinae.
- Reference:
- 1. Rhiniinae, Calliphoridae - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks, 2004.
- 2. Northern Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 3. A Revision of Australian Rhiniinae (Diptera : Calliphoridae) - J. P. Dear, Aust. J. Zool., 1977, 25, 779-826.
