Golden Native Drone Fly - Eristalinus (Lathyrophthalmus) punctulatus
Family Syrphidae
This page contains pictures and information about Golden Native Drone Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm, female
- The Hover Fly is golden yellow in colour with four black stripes on thorax. Abdomen is banded and spotted.
Female
- Pictures were taken in Wishart Outlook along Bulimba Creek during a very hot day in late summer. The fly was resting on a Acacia leaf. The fly produces a loud buzz similar to bee.
- From the reference information, the larva has long thin tail, thus, called a Rat-tailed Maggot. The rat-tailed maggot usually breeds in drains, sewage pools, and other stagnant water.
Male
- Male and female look about the same. Male has eyes very close together.
- Reference:
- 1. A field guide to insects in Australia - By Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey, Reed New Holland, 1996, p143.
- 2. Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus) - Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO, 2005.
- 3. Revision of Australian Syrphidae (Diptera). Part I - Ferguson, E.W. 1926, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 51: 137-183 [160] (Eristalis punctulatus).
