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Family Platystomatidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Brown Signal
Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 8mm
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- We saw those flies near Bulimba Creek in Wishart on early summer Oct
2007. There were a number of them there on a large tree trunk.
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- Some of them
were courting. The courting pair were facing each other, sometimes with tongue
touching.
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- Male and female are a little bit different. They were dark brown in colour
with brown patterns on wings.
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- A close up of their long tongue.
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- Near those flies we found a batch of insect eggs. Could they be the eggs of
those flies? We are not sure. Just leave the photo here for further
study.
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- After a few days (still Oct 2007), we also saw those flies in Karawatha
Forest. They seem quite common in this time of the year, but not seen at other
time.
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- Reference:
- 1. Review of the Australasian Genera of Signal Flies (Diptera: Platystomatidae) - DAVID K. MCALPINE, Australian Museum, 2001
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