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Family Bombyliidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black and White True Bee Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 10mm
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- This Bee Fly is large. It has the stout and hairy body, with
long and slender proboscis. The thorax is black and abdomen segment 2-4
covered with white hairs. Wings are half marked with black near wing base.
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- All legs are black in colour. The antennae are relatively long with the 3rd
segment slender.
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- Pictures were taken on Karawatha Forest on Oct 2007. We saw them there
only a few times.
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- Reference:
- 1. Bee Flies of the World. The genera of the family Bombyliidae - Hull, F.M. 1973, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 286: 1-687 [104].
- 2. 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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