Brown Ligyra Beefly - Ligyra sinuatifascia
Family Bombyliidae
This page contains pictures and information about Brown Ligyra Beeflies that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
- This is a medium size brown stout beefly. Wing patterns are reddish-brown which do not reach hide wing margin. Abdomen is yellowish-brown with grey medially.
- Pictures taken in Karawatha Forest during early and mid summer. Found them quite a few time in Rocky Circuit on the sandy footpath.
- This species is Ligyra sinuatifascia (Synonyms: L. macraspis).
- Reference:
- 1. An evolutionary radiation of beeflies in semi-arid Australia: systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera: Bombyliidae) - Lambkin CL, Yeates DK & Greathead DJ, Invertebrate Systematics, 2003.
- 2. Species Ligyra sinuatifascia (Macquart, 1855) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory.
- 3. A review of the Australian species of the genus Ligyra Newman (Hyperlonia Olim) (Bombyliidae : Diptera) - SJ Paramonov, 1967.
