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Family
Tachinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Green Rutilia Fly that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
This fly also known as Bristle Fly.
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- Body length
15mm
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- The fly's hairy
body was bright metallic golden-green in colour, with golden and black patches near the
base of the wings. This is the most common
Rutilia Fly that we found in Brisbane.
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- The fly has the silvery-yellow head with minor metallic green on
face.
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- We identified this fly by its convex scutellum, five setae on postalar
callus, head with bright yellow ground colour and body colour in metallic
golden green.
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- This fly seems like to to aggregate at hilltop. In mid summer we usually
found quite a number of them resting on tree trunks in a small area near the
hilltop. In the aggregation sites sometimes we found other Rutilia Fly species
as well.
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- In
early summer, we saw many of them resting on Iron-bark gum tree trunk in
Karawatha Forest Bushtail track. There is a place with many Iron-bark gum
trees and openly facing a downhill slope. There could be a place where the
males meet the females of this species.
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- Pictures taken in Yugarapul
Park, Karawatha Forest and Alexandra Hill, mid summer. This fly larvae parasites on Scarab
Beetle larvae.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife
of Greater Brisbane - New edition, Published by Queensland
Museum 2007, p139.
- 2. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, plate 5P.
- 3. 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.
- 4. 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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