Villa Bee Fly II - Villa sp.
Family Bombyliidae
This page contains pictures and information about Villa Bee Flies that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm
- The beefly is yellowish brown in colour with banded abdomen. Those bands are dark brown with narrow pale brown, with one band is white. The wings are clear with a white spot at the wing base.
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- We also found the beefly in Karawatha Forest during early summer.
- This Bee Fly looks like the above species except a bit smaller and the colours on abdomen are slightly different. The pictures were taken in Macgregor bushland in early summer.
- Reference:
- 1. Australian Wildlife Insects Flies - Lochman Transparencies, 2008, (Villa sp.).
