Subfamily Laphriinae
Family Asilidae
This page contains pictures and information about Robber Flies in Subfamily Laphriinae
that we found
in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Robber flies in this subfamily have the wing vein R2+3 ending on R1. Their antenna is three segmented and without terminal style. Some of them are shiny metallic colour.
- Metallic Grey Robber Fly
- ? sp., body length 18mm
- This robber fly is medium in size and dark grey in metallic colour. All its legs are dark grey to dark brown. There is a white circle around the outer edge of its thorax. Its abdomen is long and half is extended longer than its wings. This robber fly like to rest on the ground. Please check this page for more information.
- Metallic Brown Robber Fly
- ? sp., body length 15mm
- This robber fly is medium in size and brown in metallic colour. All its legs are dark brown to dark brown. Check this page for more information.
- Robber Fly
- Laphria sp., body length 20mm
- This Robber Fly likes to rest on the floor of footpath. We saw many of them in the rainforest near Mt Nebo. The Robber Fly in the above photos had just captured a small black wasp.
- Black Rubber Fly
- Laphria sp., body length 15mm
- Pictures taken in Karawatha Forest on Jan 2009.
- Small Wasp-mimic Robber Fly
- Laphria hirta, body length 20mm
- We found this fly the second time in Carbrook Wetlands on Sep 2009. This robber fly seems like to rest on leaves waiting for prey.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, plate 5.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 758.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p363.
