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Family Bombyliidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Anthrax Bee Flies in Tribe
Anthracini
that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 8mm
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- Many of those flies resting on the mud of a large fallen tree root. They
were still there even many weeks later. We saw in in Karawatha Forest during early
summer.
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- We did not see this beefly in any other places.
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- The reference suggested this species parasite on the mud wasp of Odynerus
(Eumeninae).
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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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