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Order Diptera
- This page contains pictures and information about Calyptratae Muscoid Flies
that
we founded in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Calyptratae is a large group of flies in insect order Diptera. They are commonly referred to as the calyptrate muscoids or simply
calyptrates. They include the House Flies, Bush Flies,
Blowflies, Flesh
Flies and Tachinid
flies.
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- They are from small to large in size. They have
the well developed calypters (plate near the wing base covering the
haltere). They are usually from grey to black in colours. Some with stripes
on scutum (thorax) and some are metallic green or blue in colours. The can
be distinguished by their common wing vein patterns.
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  - Calypter and haltere
Wing
vein
Head
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Calyptratae
- There are over ten families in this group. We list the four large
families as follows.
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- Bush Flies develop as maggots in the animals dung. Adults have two stripes
on their back. The Common House Fly Musca domestica is also in this
family.
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- Most of the flies in this family are metallic green or blue colours. They
are medium to large in size. Their antennal arista is usually plumose. There are the bristles on the both sides of their
thorax and abdomen tip. Adult Blowfly feeds on nectar, honey dew and other
sweet liquid, or liquid products of organic decomposition. Blowfly larvae
usually live in carrion or dung, which also help for decomposition.
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- The
Flesh flies have three black stripes on the top of their thorax. The females are viviparous, producing live maggots
directly onto their food source. They are either breed in rotting vegetation or
parasites on other insects. They are commonly seen in Brisbane backyards.
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 All Tachinid Flies share the parasitoid habit, their larvae are parasites in other insects. They mainly parasites on larvae of moths or butterflies, larvae or adults of beetles. Others Tachinid Flies species attack adults of bugs, or adults of various orthopteroid
orders.
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- Others - Please also visit this page, there are the flies
that we cannot identify yet.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p717.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p333.
- 3. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions
- edited by Neal L. Evenhuis, Bishop Museum 2007.
- 4. Diptera (flies) - of Orange County, California, by Peter J. Bryant and Ron Hemberger, University of California.
- 5. Identification of Calyptrate Diptera to Family - Regina M. Cutter, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY.
- 6. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 7. On the Fly, The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families CD Rom - Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. Brisbane : CBIT & ABRS.
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