Alice Springs Fauna •
Soldier Flies (Odontomyia)Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Opaluma (Australian Soldier Fly)
Rescued from a swimming pool in Alice Springs, this is the Black Solider Fly (Hermetia illucens). A common and widespread fly, it is a member of the family Stratiomyidae.
The adult Black Solider Fly, have green-tinged with black pattern eyes and considered useful in recycling organic waste and generating animal feed. The harvested pupae, prepupae and larvae are used as feed.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Diptera
- Suborder: Brachycera
- Informal: Orthorrhapha
- Superfamily: Stratiomyoidea
- Family: Stratiomyidae
- Subfamily: Hermetiinae
- Genus: Hermetia
- Species: Hermetia illucens
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for soldier fly ID to Tissa Ratnayeke, member of Entomology Australia “Invertebratology”, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/507004496955277/
- Hermetia illucens (Linnaeus, 1758), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/a9639dfa-fdc1-4226-b9e5-afb3d346d49d
- Hermetia illucens, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetia_illucens
Soldier Flies (Odontomyia)Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Opaluma (Australian Soldier Fly)
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