White-tipped Long-wings Beefly - Comptosia rubrifera

Family Bombyliidae

This page contains pictures and information about White-tipped Long-wings Bee Fly that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Male (with white wing tips) body length 15mm

 

The Bee Fly is dark brown to black in colours with golden hairs on body. Wings are tinted in brown colour. Male has the white stripe on wing tip.. 

 

 

We saw this Bee Fly once in Anstead Forest on Nov 2009. The mating pair was on grass near the ground. When we took those photos, the female tried to fly away but the male seemed not too care on our approaching. 

 

 

 

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Reference:

1. Revision of the Australian bee fly genus Comptosia (Diptera : Bombyliidae) - D Yeates, Invertebrate Taxonomy, 5: 1023-1178,1991  

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Last updated: November 14, 2009.