Clear-wing Brown Bee Fly - Comptosia praeargentata
Family Bombyliidae
This page contains pictures and information about Clear-wing Brown Bee Flies in Subfamily Lomatiinae
that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 16mm
- The Bee Fly is dark brown in colour with golden yellow hairs on edge of thorax and abdomen. There are the hairs between each abdomen segment. The wings are clean but with tinted brown colour, hyaline with diffuse brown marking on costal margin. The wings are relatively clearer than other Brown Bee Fly so we called them
- They are usually found resting on the sandy footpath. Some are laying eggs with end tip of abdomen inserted into the soil.
- This Bee Fly was usually found laying eggs in soil during mid summer in Karawatha Forest. They are quite common there.
- Reference:
- 1. Revision of the Australian bee fly genus Comptosia (Diptera : Bombyliidae) - D Yeates, Invertebrate Taxonomy, 5: 1023-1178,1991
