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Orange-green Signal Fly - Lamprogaster rugifacies

Family Platystomatidae

This page contains pictures and information about Orange-green Signal Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
 
Body length 8mm
 
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. 
 

Reference:
1. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p371, plate 20.27. 
2. 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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Last updated: March 16, 2008.