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Family
Tachinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Blue Rutilia Fly that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 15mm
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- Blue Rutilia Fly is a large size fly with metallic blue-green
colours.
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- All Tachinid Flies share the
parasitoid habit. Their larvae are internal parasites of many orders and families of insects.
The Rutilia Fly mostly are parasitic in larval Coleoptera
(beetle) especially Scarabaeidae. Adults
are usually found resting on tree trunk.
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- This fly can be identified by its non-pollinose parafrontals brilliant
metallic green to blue-violet in colours, and its has three setae on
postalar callus (most other Rutilia sp. have four or more). There
are the very strong supernumerary setae on the scutum immediately in front
of the scutellum.
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- Three setae on postalar callus
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- We found this Blue Rutilia Fly once on Dec 2008 in
Karawatha Forest on Rocky Track.
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- For the general information about Tachinid
fly in tribe Rutiliini, please check this page.
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- Reference:
- 1. A revisionary classification of the Rutiliini (Diptera: Tachinidae), : with keys to the described species - R. W. Crosskey, British Museum (Natural History),
Bulletin, Entomology, Supplement 19, 1973.
- 2. A conspectus of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of Australia, including keys to the supraspecific taxa and taxonomic and host catalogues - R. W. Crosskey, British Museum (Natural History),
Bulletin, Entomology, Supplement 21, 1973.
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