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WTB? Down UnderWhat is it?
Found by a friend in her garden in cygnet, AR Australia
Dee Stephen
Hi Dee,
We are relatively certain this is some species of Tachinid Fly, but sadly, we cannot find a species match on the awesome Geocities Tachinid Page. All Tachinid Flies have larvae that are internal parasites on insects, especially caterpillars, beetles, true bugs, grasshoppers and stick insects.
Update: November 29, 2010
A new set of images of this lovely Tachinid or Bristle Fly has allowed us to clean up this previous unidentified posting.
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The CSIRO’s giant tomes “The Insects of Australia” has a colour plate with one of these – but gives it as Formosia speciosa. Annoyingly, I can find no other mention of the species or genus online :/
Posted 17 Jan 2012 at 7:27 am ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 2
[...] We also had a vague recollection of seeing a similar photo in the past, and sure enough, we found a still unidentified posting in our [...]
[...] Nov 29th 2010, that’s just a couple of days before Summer. Signature: LindaBristle FlyHi Linda, The first time we posted a photo of this distinctive fly in 2007, we posted it as an unidentified Tachinid Fly. In 2009, we posted another image, still [...]
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