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Tachinid fly - Subfamily Dexiinae
Family
Tachinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Tachinid
Flies subfamily Dexiinae (or Proseninae in some
reference) that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- This is a very large subfamily. The Dexiinae mostly are parasitic in larval Coleoptera
(beetle) especially Scarabaeidae.
How do they locate their host is remain unknown. Larvae develop in the host
and pupate either within its remains or in the surrounding.
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- Adults
are usually found resting on tree trunk. Usually they have long legs, with
face elongated under eyes.
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- Flies in subfamily Dexiinae have the following characteristic;
- - typical dexiin face with facial carina and board gena
- - excavation of abdomen T1+2 reach to hind margin,
- - eyes bare
- - no reclinate orbital setae
- - row of frontal setae down to lunula only
- - scutellum with three pair of marginal setae
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- There are two tribes, Dexiini and Rutiliini, in this subfamily Dexiinae.
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 - Rutiliini
Dexiini
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 784.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p376.
- 3. Family TACHINIDAE - Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory.
- 4. The systematics of the Australasian Dexiini (Diptera : Tachinidae : Dexiinae) with revisions of endemic genera - DA Barraclough, Invertebrate Taxonomy 1992, 6(5) 1127 - 1371.
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