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Family Platystomatidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Orange-green Signal
Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 8mm
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- We sometimes found many of them in Yugarapul
Park along Bulimba. Also they were found in Karawatha Forest.
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- Head and throax are orange colour with abdomen in metallic green. There
are three longitudinal light brown stripes on mesoscutum. Scutellum is dark
metallic green in colour. Wings
are patterned with black spots, leading edge and wing base are orange. Legs
are black in colour.
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- We would like to thank Terence Chen
here for sending us email advised us the ID of this fly.
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- Reference:
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Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p371, plate 20.27.
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Lamprogaster
sp. - David McClenaghan, 2004, Tree
of Life.
- 3. The Australian Platystomatidae (Diptera, Schizophora) with a revision of five genera -
McAlpine, D.K., 1972, The Australian Museum, p52.
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