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Tangle-veined Flies - Family Nemestrinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Tangle-veined Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia
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- This family is easily recognised by the complex wing venation. The fly is
usually large to medium size with hairy body. The larvae are parasitic
on insects includes grasshoppers.
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- Brown Tangle-veined Fly
 - Atriadops sp., body length 10mm
Pictures were taken in Alexandra Hill bushland. The second picture shows the
fly get caught in a spider web. We thought this fly was a Beefly in family Bombyliidae.
Dr
Christine Lambkin send us email advised that this should be a member of
the Family Nemestrinidae and the genus Atriadops.
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- Yellow Tangle-veined Fly
 - Trichophthalma sp., body length 15mm
- The fly is golden yellowish-brown in colour, with large and pointy abdomen. Its body is covered with short hairs. Its large pair of dark red
compound eyes covered most of its head. It has the long mouth parts. Its
pair of wings is tinted in brown. At first sight in the field we thought this is a
Beefly. Went back home
and looked at the photos, from its complex wing veins, we recognized it is a
Tangle-veined Fly. We have more pictures and information in this page.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p755.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p360.
- 3. Nemestrinidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 5/9/2008
- 4. A review of Australian Nemestrinidae (Diptera) -SJ Paramonov, Australian Journal of Zoology 1(2) 242 - 290, CSIRO 1953.
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