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Family Syrphidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Hover
Flies in subfamily Microdontinae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- The hover flies in Subfamily Microdontinae have antennae directed anteriorly and usually long.
They are stoutly built, closely resembling bees or wasps.
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- The larvae are oval and convex dorsally, soft and flat ventrally, could be
mistaken as mollusks. They are found in ants' nests, where the larvae live as scavengers or predators.
- Black Wasp-mimic Fly
- Microdon sp., body length 6mm
- Found this Black Wasp-mimic
Hover Fly in Karawatha Forest near the Lagoon, Sep 2008. We have more
photos of this fly here.
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- Yellow-face Wasp-mimic Fly
 - Microdon sp., body length 8mm
- We found a few of them hovering near the ground. This fly has very good
hovering technique. It can stay still at a single spot in air firmly for a
long time, then suddenly move to another spot very quickly and stay there.
Please check this page for more
information.
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- Wasp-mimic Fly
 - Bardistophus sp., body length 6mm
- This Wasp-mimic Hover
Fly is distinguished by its extremely long 3rd antenna segment. Check this page
for more information.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p763.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p368.
- 3. Family SYRPHIDAE -
Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog - Web Version, by F. Christian Thompson & J.R. Vockeroth, 2007.
- 4. Syrphidae - Graeme's Insects of Townsville, Australia.
- 5. A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China - XIN-YUE CHENG & F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON, Zootaxa 1879: 21–48 (2008).
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