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Family Bombyliidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Anthrax Bee Fly in Tribe
Anthracini
that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 10mm
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- We saw this Bee Fly once in Karawatha forest Sep 2007. The Bee Fly is black
in colour with black patterns on hyaline wings. There is the white spots on
each side of the abdomen new the wing base.
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  - Anthrax maculatus, body length 10mm
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- We also found them Karawatha forest on Apr 2009, some of the female seemed
laying eggs on vertical mud wall.
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- Saw one hovering near the base of a large gum tree trunk on Sep 2009 in
Carbrook Wetland.
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- This beefly is known laying egg on mud
wasp nests.
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- Reference:
- 1. Anthrax
Bee Fly - lifeunseen.com,
by Nick Monaghan
- 2. Cryptic species diversity and character congruence: review of the tribe Anthracini (Diptera : Bombyliidae) in Australia - David K. Yeates and Christine L. Lambkin,
1998.
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