Yellow-face Wasp-mimic Fly - Microdon sp.

This page contains pictures and information about Yellow-face Wasp-mimic Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 8mm

 

Found this black Yellow-face Wasp-mimic Hover Fly in Carbrook Wetland Oct 2011.

 

 

We found a few of them hovering near the ground at that day. 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.  

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Reference:

1. Insects of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, Fig39.27B.

2. Northern Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009. 

3. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p368.

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Last updated: October 16, 2011.