Large Banded Bee Fly
Bronze Bee Fly
| Large Banded Bee Fly | | Bronze Bee Fly | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) | ||||
| Species: | Large Banded Bee Fly (Ligyra cingulata) | ||||
Thank you Graeme Cocks† for helping with the identification of this species Thank you Tony Daley for helping with the identification of this species Thank you Dr Chris Lambkin for confirming the identification of this species General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Chris said "variation of colour may be because of different environmental conditions under which the immatures develop, so that darker patterns result from colder developmental conditions" and she suspects this is "a newly emerged specimen". She later said "Probably female. The var incompleta Paramonov specimens invariably were female." Two specimens found in January. | |||||
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