Grey-wing Brown Bee Fly - Comptosia praeargentata

Family Bombyliidae

This page contains pictures and information about Grey-wing Brown Bee Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 20mm 

 

The Bee Fly is dark brown to black in colour with dense golden-yellow hairs on each side of body and between abdomen segments. All legs are black. 

 

 

The wings of the Bee Fly are yellow-brown in colour with grey towards apex, darker towards costal margin. 

 

 

This species is common in Brisbane. Females are usually found flying low or resting on sandy soil.  

 

 

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Reference:

1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 759.

2. Revision of the Australian bee fly genus Comptosia (Diptera : Bombyliidae) - D Yeates, 1991. 

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