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Yellow Tangle-veined Flies - Trichophthalma
sp.
Family Nemestrinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Yellow Tangle-veined Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia
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 - Body length 15mm
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- The fly is golden yellowish-brown in colour, with large 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.
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- At first sight in the field we thought this was a Beefly. Went back home
and looked at the photos, from its complex wing veins, we recognized it was a
Tangle-veined Fly.
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- We found this fly once in Daisy Hill near Buhot Creek during mid summer
Dec 2008.
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- This fly did not mind we came very close. It were hovering most of the
time above short plants. Sometimes even hovering still in the air for s few
seconds. Its landed on plants for one or two seconds then hovering again.
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- 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. A review of Australian Nemestrinidae (Diptera) -SJ Paramonov, Australian Journal of Zoology 1(2) 242 - 290, CSIRO 1953.
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