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Family Bombyliidae
- This page contains pictures and information about True Bee Flies in Subfamily
Bombyliinae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Bee Flies in the subfamily
Bombyliinae usually have the stout and hairy body, with
long and slender proboscis. The wing vein M1 meets R5 before the wing
margin. Sometimes this subfamily is called True Bee Flies because their
hairy body resembles bee.
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- True Bee Flies have long proboscis and feed on nectar and pollen. On a
sunny day, they are often seen on feed on flowers, hovering over vegetation or
rest on bare ground. They are the the import pollinators, some are even the
primary pollinators of some species of flower plants.
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- Their larvae are parasitic on other insects' eggs or larvae.
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- Golden True Bee Fly
 
- ? Staurostichus sp., body length 8mm
- Pictures were taken on Alexandra Hill during late spring. We also found
them resting on sandy soil in Karawatha Forest during mid summer. We have more
pictures and information in this page.
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- White-striped Golden True
Bee Fly
- ? Staurostichus sp., body length 8mm
- This beefly has the stout and hairy body in golden brown colour, with
long and slender proboscis. It looked similar to the Golden True Beefly above
except it has two white stripes along its thorax. Check this page
for more information.
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- Black and White True Bee Fly
- ? Staurostichus sp., body length 10mm
- The beefly is large. It has the stout and hairy body, with
long and slender proboscis. The thorax is black and abdomen segment 2-4
covered with white hairs, are segments are black. Wings are half marked with
black. Please check this page for more
information.
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- Black and Grey True Bee Fly
- ? Meomyia sericans, body length 10mm
- This beefly is large. It has the stout and hairy body, with
long and slender proboscis. The thorax is grey and abdomen segments
covered with black and white hairs. Wings are slightly tinted. Pictures were taken
in Sunshine Check this page for more
information.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 759.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p364.
- 3. Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) -
by Giff Beaton, 2005.
- 4. The
cladistics and classification of the Bombyliidae (Diptera: Asiloidea)
- by David K.Yeates, 1994.
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