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Family Bombyliidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black and Grey True Bee Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 10mm
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- This beefly is large in size. It has the stout and hairy body, with
long and slender proboscis. The thorax is grey and abdomen segments banded with
black and white hairs. Wings are slightly tinted.
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- Pictures were taken in Sunshine Coast near Glasshouse Mountains on Oct
2008. There were many of them along the footpaths. Some of them seem
laying eggs in soils.
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- On Sep 2009, Michael
Jefferies sent us email suggested it could be the Meomyia
sericans. We checked and agreed with Michael.
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- The 3rd antennal segment extremely long, thin and pointed apically.
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- We also found them in Karawatha Forest.
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- Reference:
- 1. Meomyia
sericans
(Macq.) 1850. Bee Fly -
flickr photo by mgjefferies, 2008.- 2. Insects
of Australia -
CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 759.
- 3. Studies in Pacific Bombyliidae (Diptera). IX. Systematic remarks on Australian Bombyliinae, with descriptions of new genera - Evenhuis,
N.L. 1983, International Journal of Entomology 25: 206-214 [Date published 27 October] [206].
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