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Family
Tachinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black-striped Dexiin Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- We identified this species by its wing veins and striped patterns on
thorax. The fly is medium in size with stout body. It has the long plumose
arista on antenna. Scutellum and all legs are dark brown to black in colour.
Lower calypter is creamy-white. Abdomen in egg shape and is creamy-brown with
narrow mid black strip.
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- The Dexiin Fly mostly are parasitic in larval Coleoptera
(beetle) especially Scarabaeidae. Adults
are usually found resting on tree trunk.
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- Photos were taken on Daisy Hills near Buhot Creek on Oct 2009.
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- Reference:
- 1. The systematics of the Australasian Dexiini (Diptera : Tachinidae : Dexiinae) with revisions of endemic genera - DA
Barraclough, Invertebrate Taxonomy 1992, 6(5) 1127 - 1371.
- 2. A conspectus of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of Australia, including keys to the supraspecific taxa and taxonomic and host catalogues - R. W. Crosskey, British Museum (Natural History),
Bulletin, Entomology, Supplement 21, 1973.
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