Alice Springs Fauna •
Alice Springs DipteraGreen Blowfly Australiphthiria sp (Bee Fly) Mydas Fly, Miltinus sp Robber Fly, Bathypogon sp Soldier Flies (Odontomyia) Stiletto Fly (Agapophytus yeatesi) Yellow-shouldered Hover Fly, Ischiodon scutellaris
These Australiphthiria sp are very small bee-flies, with wings usually folded over their rounded abdomen. The Australiphthiria are unusual for bee-flies, in that they are nearly hairless and don’t have the distinctively bent wing-veins displayed by many species. They are diurnal.
The Australiphthiria sp in Alice Springs are often found on the flowering plant genus Gossypium, including Native Cotton Bush (Gossypium australe) and Sturt’s Desert Rose (Gossyipium sturtianum).
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Diptera
- Suborder: Brachycera
- Infraorder: Orthorrhapha
- Superfamily: Asiloidea
- Family: Bombyliidae
- Subfamily: Phthiriinae
- Tribe: Phthiriini
- Genus: Australiphthiria
Footnote & References
- Australiphthiria Evenhuis, 1986, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/9e6b8e29-9246-4db0-b800-470fff3f1eec
- Genus Australiphthiria, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/633588-Australiphthiria
- Genus Australiphthiria, ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/109521160
- Australiphthiria (genus), NatureMapr, https://canberra.naturemapr.org/species/1384
Alice Springs DipteraGreen Blowfly Australiphthiria sp (Bee Fly) Mydas Fly, Miltinus sp Robber Fly, Bathypogon sp Soldier Flies (Odontomyia) Stiletto Fly (Agapophytus yeatesi) Yellow-shouldered Hover Fly, Ischiodon scutellaris
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