DipteraDiptera – image index Flies Pollinators and Flies Australian Sheep Blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) Australian Drain Fly Balaana Beefly Bat Flies Bee Flies Bee Fly (Anthrax) Ligyra Australiphthiria Chrysomya saffranea Eristalinus punctulatus Musca Odontomyia (Soldier Flies) Robber Flies Sarcophaga aurifrons Soldier Fly Syrphids
Seen here is the Common Halfband (Melangyna viridiceps), an Australian hoverfly that is found widely across Eastern Australia.
The Melangyna viridiceps are fast flying flies. Important pollinators, they can often be seen pausing in flight (hovering) over flowers. The larvae eat aphids.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Diptera
- Suborder: Brachycera
- Infraorder: Cyclorrhapha
- Zoosection: Aschiza
- Family: Syrphidae
- Subfamily: Syrphinae
- Tribe: Syrphini
- Genus: Melangyna
- Subgenus: Austrosyrphus
- Species: Melangyna viridiceps
Footnote & References
- Common Halfband (Melangyna viridiceps), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/362610-Melangyna-viridiceps
DipteraDiptera – image index Flies Pollinators and Flies Australian Sheep Blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) Australian Drain Fly Balaana Beefly Bat Flies Bee Flies Bee Fly (Anthrax) Ligyra Australiphthiria Chrysomya saffranea Eristalinus punctulatus Musca Odontomyia (Soldier Flies) Robber Flies Sarcophaga aurifrons Soldier Fly Syrphids