Alice Springs Fauna •
Alice Springs DipteraGreen Blowfly Australiphthiria sp (Bee Fly) Golden Native Drone Fly (Eristalinus punctulatus) Microtropesa sp (Tachinid Fly) Mydas Fly, Miltinus sp Neosardus sp Robber Fly, Bathypogon sp Rutilia sp Soldier Flies (Odontomyia) Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Odontomyia decipiens Opaluma (Australian Soldier Fly) Stiletto Fly (Agapophytus yeatesi) Yellow-shouldered Hover Fly, Ischiodon scutellaris
Rutilia is a genus of flies, in the family Tachinidae, that are native to Australia and the Oriental region (although they are notably absent from New Zealand).
They are medium to large flie (greater then 20 mm) and like the vast majority of Tachinid flies, Rutilia species are parasitoids of other insects, in particular the Rutilia are known to be parasitoids of the instar larvae of scarab beetles.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Diptera
- Unranked: Cyclorrhapha
- Informal: Schizophora
- Informal: Calyptratae
- Superfamily: Oestroidea
- Family: Tachinidae
- Subfamily: Dexiinae
- Tribe: Rutiliini
- Genus: Rutilla
- Subgenus:
- Rutilia (Ameniamima) Crosskey, 1973
- Rutilia (Chrysorutilia) Townsend, 1915
- Rutilia (Donovanius) Enderlein, 1936
- Rutilia (Grapholostylum) Macquart, 1851
- Rutilia (Microrutilia) Townsend, 1915
- Rutilia (Neorutilia) Malloch, 1936
- Rutilia (Rutilia) Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
- Rutilia micropalpis Malloch, 1929
- Rutilia scutellata (Enderlein, 1936)
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Daniel Heald and Liam Foley for ID, member of Entomology Australia “Invertebratology”, https://www.facebook.com/groups/507004496955277/
- Rutilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Rutilia
Alice Springs DipteraGreen Blowfly Australiphthiria sp (Bee Fly) Golden Native Drone Fly (Eristalinus punctulatus) Microtropesa sp (Tachinid Fly) Mydas Fly, Miltinus sp Neosardus sp Robber Fly, Bathypogon sp Rutilia sp Soldier Flies (Odontomyia) Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Odontomyia decipiens Opaluma (Australian Soldier Fly) Stiletto Fly (Agapophytus yeatesi) Yellow-shouldered Hover Fly, Ischiodon scutellaris
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