Fruit Fly - Family Tephritidae
This page contains pictures and information about Fruit Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia
- Body length 8mm
Adults in this family are from small to medium size. Their wings are often patterned. Females have ovipositor to insert eggs into fruits or flower buds.
Most larvae in this family are fruit feeders and some are serious economic pests. The female Fruit flies insert their eggs inside fruit and the larvae live inside. When the larvae become mature, the fruit usually becomes rotten and falls onto the ground, the larvae come out and pupate in soil.
- Queensland Fruit Fly
- Bactrocera tryoni, body length 6mm
- We found quite a number of this flies on the peach tree in Botanic Garden in Mt Coot-Tha. The fly is mostly orange-brown in colour with yellow strips on thorax. Its abdomen is stout with a pale brown band. Its wings are with dark front edges and dark base. There are more pictures and information in this page.
- Wild Tobacco Fly
- Bactrocera cacuminata, body length 6mm
- This Wild Tobacco Fly is easily found on the Wild Tobacco plants. The fly lays eggs into wild tobacco fruits. Please also check this page for more information.
- Ant-mimicking Fly
- ? sp., body length 5mm
- We found this fly mimics ants when moves. By just looking at those fly photos, you may not recognized how this fly mimics ants. We have details explanations here.
- Fruit Fly
- Photo: Keith Power, Toowoomba
- Acanthonevra sp., Subfamily Tephritinae
- Reference:
- 1. Acanthonevra sp. - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks, 2004
