Bee Fly – Anthracinae – Villa sp. No. 04
Details
Name:
Bee Fly – Anthracinae – Villa sp. No. 04
Bee Fly – Anthracinae – Villa sp. No. 04
Scientific Name:
Villa sp. (WA – Lake Cronin NR)
Villa sp. (WA – Lake Cronin NR)
Reference Number:
LLE-914b
LLE-914b
Description
Order Diptera; Suborder Brachycera; Family Bombyliidae (Bee Flies); Subfamily: Anthracinae; Provisional scientific name: Villa sp. (WA – Lake Cronin NR); Common name: Bee Fly – Female laying eggs at the edge of a targeted insect burrow - Description: Very dark, almost black, unpatterned fly with some scattered adpressed, silvery-white hairs on the thorax; these hairs are more prominent and denser on the front third of the abdomen in the female; adpressed hairs on the terminal third of the female’s abdomen beige; collar brown with some white hairs admixed; facial hairs between eyes black; wings clear - Distribution in Australia: Western Australia – Photographed: in December, in Lake Cronin Nature Reserve in Goldfields Region.
Additional Details
Reference Number: | LLE-914b |
Scientific Name: | Villa sp. (WA – Lake Cronin NR) |