Bee FliesBee Flies Index Anthrax (Bee Fly) Australiphthiria Balaana Beefly Cryomyia sp Ligyra Neosardus cosmus
Neosardus cosmus – a very unusual fly observed on this trip to Wongan Hills in Western Australia. The Wongan Hills trip was for the Great Southern BioBlitz 2024, AND the WA Naturalists Club Centenary.
ID by Chris Lambkin as Neosardus cosmus, a Bee Fly that as far as they can determine has never been photographed before, and only collected 6 times. Five of those times were from one location in the Great Victoria Desert ENE of Cosmo Newbery (a small Aboriginal community in Western Australia). The Great Victoria Desert is a desert eco-region and interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia and South Australia.



- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Diptera
- Suborder: Brachycera
- Informal: Orthorrhapha
- Superfamily: Asiloidea
- Family: Bombyliidae
- Subfamily: Cythereinae
- Genus: Neosardus
- Species: Neosardus cosmus
Footnote & References
- Neosardus cosmus © Daniel Heald
- Many thanks to Chris Lambkin for ID, iNaturalistAU, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/244274287
- Neosardus cosmus, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/1321309-Neosardus-cosmus
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