Giant Yellow Robber Fly - Blepharotes coriarius
Family Asilidae
This page contains pictures and information about Giant Yellow Robber Flies
that we found
in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 45mm
- A large bright yellow insect flied pass by and rest high on a tree trunk with the very loud buzzing sound. From its size and yellow fur body we thought it might be a large Carpenter Bee. When it rested on a tree trunk (about picture) we recognized it was the Giant Yellow Robber Fly.
- We saw this Large Yellow Robber Fly a few times in Karawatha Forest, from mid to late summer. It usually rested on large gum tree trunk.
- This Large Robber Fly looks similar to the Giant Robber File above, which is about the same giant size or a little bit smaller. The hair on abdomen are golden yellow and the hairs on its legs are black in colours. The wings are tinted in smoky brown colour.
- This Large Yellow Robber Fly is always in very high alert, will fly away even if we carefully come close with a few meters. We are still trying to shot a better picture.
- Reference:
- 1. Australian Insects, An Introductory Handbook - Keith C. McKeown, 1945, p225.
- 2. Blepharotes coriarius, (Wiedemann, 1830) - Robber Fly, ink on clay-coated paper, by Geoff Thompson, Queensland Museum 1990.
