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Family
Tachinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Golden Head Rutilia
Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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This large Golden Head Rutilia Fly is dark purplish black in
colour with non-metallic dark brown scutellum. Its postorbits (the narrow strips behind eyes) are silvery white on
orange-yellow head.
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Female
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- Sometimes we found this fly flying and searching on rotten wood. We
believed it was the female looking for parasite host, larval Coleoptera
(beetle) especially Scarabaeidae.
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 - Male
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Scutellum of male and female
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- We saw this Black Golden Head Rutilia
Fly only a couple of times. Photos were taken in Karawatha Forest near the She-oak-pine area on Dec
2007.
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- Reference:
- 1. A revisionary classification of the Rutiliini (Diptera: Tachinidae), : with keys to the described species - R. W. Crosskey, British Museum (Natural History),
Bulletin, Entomology, Supplement 19, 1973.
- 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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