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Family Bombyliidae
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- Body length 8mm
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- Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest during early summer. There were a
number of them feeding on flowers of Forest Boronia (Boronia rosmarinifolia).
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- Pictures was taken in White Hill during early summer. We cannot
identify this fly. George Foster send us email advised that it is a Bombyliid.
Then we narrowed down that this is the Geron sp..
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 758.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p364.
- 3. Bee Fly
Geron sp., - Diptera (flies) of Orange County, California, by Peter J. Bryant.
- 4. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum 2003, p 135.
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