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Tachinid fly - Subfamily Tachininae
Family
Tachinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Tachinid
Flies Subfamily Tachininae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- The Tachininae are mostly parasitic in Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly).
Flies in Tachininae are more diverse and include some of the largest, most colorful, and most bristly of tachinids.
This subfamily also includes some of the smallest and least conspicuous tachinids.
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- Four subfamilies are recognised in
Tachinidae. However, it is believed should be more than four. At the
moment, if the Australian tachinids that are clearly not either of the three
subfamilies, they will be put in the subfamily Tachininae.
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- Flies in subfamily can be identified by the following characteristic;
- - head without facial carina,
- - reclinate orbital setae usually present,
- - inner vertical setae convergent or crossing,
- - vibrissae well developed,
Voriini
- Flies in this tribe have the following characteristic;
- - antennal axis about middle eye level,
- - second antenna segment long,
- - arista thickened,
- - bend of vein M strongly angulated and remote from wing margin,
- - M continued towards wing margin,
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- Golden-blue Tachinid Fly
  - Voria sp., body length 6mm
Minthoini
- Thin Long Legs Tachinid fly
 - Sumpigaster sp., body length 10mm
- Picture taken near Bulimba Creek in Wishart during mid summer. It was
searching for something among the leaves.
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Ernestiini
- Flies in this tribe have the following characteristic;
- - eyes with densely long hairs,
- - Scutellum with 4 pairs of marginal bristles,
- - wings clear with bend of vein M very sharp and M2 spur vein,
- - upper half of face raised,
- - thoracic dorsum not shiny,
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- Metallic Green Hairy Fly
 - Macrochloria sp.,
- We found fly once in Karawatha Forest near the Lagoon on Sep 2010.
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Tachinini
- Golden Tachinid Fly
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- Microtropesa sinuata, body length 12mm.
- This is a very fat Tachinid fly. The abdomen is dark shiny blue background colour.
The thorax is shiny brown background colour. Both abdomen and thorax have a lot
of brightly white triangular spots. It has a pair of big red eyes on the orange
head. Its antenna is distinctive too - orange with black tips. We found it when
it was feeding on flowers of Lantana plants. please check this page
for more information.
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- Golden Tachinid Fly
II
  - Microtropesa sp. body length 12mm.
- This fly has smoky brown and yellow wings.
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- 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. 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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