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Tachinid fly - Subfamily Tachininae
Family
Tachinidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Tachinid
Flies Subfamily Tachininae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- The Tachininae are mostly parasitic in Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly).
Most of the are very bristly.
- Grey Hairy Tachinid Fly
 - Phorocera sp., body length 8-10mm
- There are pictures of different Tachinid flies with
grey hairy body in this page. Thy are 10-12mm in body length. They look similar but quite
likely are different species. When we raised moth and butterfly
caterpillars, there are quite often come out those flies instead of
moths/butterflies.
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- Small Grey Hairy Tachinid Fly
- ? sp., body length 8mm
- This Tachinid Fly is parasite on butterfly caterpillar.
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- Orange Tachinid Fly
 
- Microtropesa sinuata, body length 15mm.
- This is a very fat Tachinid fly. The abdomen is dark shiny blue background colour.
The thorax is shiny brown background colour. Both abdomen and thorax have a lot
of brightly white triangular spots. It has a pair of big red eyes on the orange
head. Its antenna is distinctive too, orange with black tips. We found it when
it was feeding on flowers of Lantana plants.
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- Sawfly Larvae Parasitic Fly
  - ? sp., body
length 10mm.
- This fly was checking a group of sawfly larvae. The
fly has the grey thorax and brownish-yellow abdomen. The 2nd picture show a Tachinid Fly checking the Leaf Beetle Larvae and
about to lay eggs on the larvae. The white eggs of the fly are attached on
the body of the larva. The egg hatches into maggot and bores into the body
of the Leaf Beetle larva, develops inside and kill the larva. Please
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 784.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p376.
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