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- This page contains pictures and information about Stilt-legged Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Flies in this family have very long legs, although the front pair is
usually shorter. Their body is slender with patterned wings. They usually mimic
either wasp or ant.
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- The larvae live in decaying wood and other plants matter.
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- Black Stilt-legged Fly
 
 - Mimegralla australica, body length 10mm
- This fly was found near a small pond in Yugarapul Park. It was walking
around on a large leaf seems looking for something. It kept flicking its wings
and front pair of legs, trying to convince us that it were a black
wasp or ichneumonid wasp.
 
 - The larvae live in decaying wood and other vegetable matter.
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- Orange Stilt-legged Fly
 - Metopochetus sp. body length 15mm
- Pictures were taken in
Brisbane Koala Bushlands near Burbank on Jan 2008. The fly was just wandering on
grasses. Its wing patterns look like an ant's narrow waist and abdomen. The
fly walked like an ant too, sometime with jumping action. It might try to
mimic the Jumper Ant. It did not
fly away even with our very close disturbs. It just walked and jumped onto
another plant.
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- Reference:
- 1. Flies
- family Micropezidae - lifeunseen.com,
by Nick Monaghan.
- 2. Mimegralla australica - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks, 2004.
- 3. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p771.
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