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Family Platystomatidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Orange-blue Signal
Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 10mm
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- We saw a few times three to four of those flies dancing on large gum tree
trunk in Karawatha Forest.
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- Head and throax of the fly are orange colour with abdomen in dark metallic
blue. There are three longitudinal light brown stripes on mesoscutum.
Scutellum is yellow in colour. Wings are tinged with orange-yellow, patterned with black spots, leading edge and wing base are
orange. Legs are pale orange to brown in colour. Abdomen is dark metallic
steel-blue colour.
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- Pictures were taken
in Karawatha Forest during mid summer. From the reference information, this
fly is considered as a rare species.
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- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Platystomatidae (Diptera, Schizophora) with a revision of five genera -
McAlpine, D.K., 1972, The Australian Museum, p58.
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