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Family Bombyliidae
This page contains pictures and information about Bee Flies in Subfamily Lomatiinae
that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- In this subfamily, the Bee flies have relatively longer wings and longer
body. Their wing vein Rs forks well before
r-m, with R4 and R5 strongly looped. They usually have the narrower and
flattened abdomen. Most species belong to the genus Comptosia and
Aleucosia.
- Common Long-wings Bee Fly
- Comptosia sp., body length 20mm
- This Bee Fly is common in Karawatha Forest during summer season. They are
usually found resting on the sandy footpath. Some are laying eggs with end tip
of abdomen inserted into the soil. We have more pictures and information in
this page.
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- Brown Long-wings Bee Fly

- Comptosia neosobria, body length 20mm
- In early summer, we found many of them resting on the sandy footpath in
Karawatha Forest. Some of them were mating. More pictures and information can
be found in here.
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- Costal Long-wings Bee Fly

- Aleucosia costalis, body length 15mm
- The Bee Fly is dark brown in colour with dark brown strip on each wing
front margin. The pictures were taken in Alexandra Hill during late winter.
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- Unknown Long-wings Bee Fly

- ? Comptosia sp., body length 20mm
- Bee Fly laying eggs in soil.
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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. Family
BOMBYLIIDAE - Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog - Web Version, by
Greg Daniels.
- 4. Revision of the Australian bee fly genus Comptosia (Diptera : Bombyliidae) - D
Yeates, Invertebrate Taxonomy, 5: 1023-1178,1991
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