Brown-winged Striped Bee Fly
Female, outside
Brown-winged Striped Bee Fly
Male, profile
| Brown-winged Striped Bee Fly Female, outside | | Brown-winged Striped Bee Fly Male, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) | ||||
| Species: | Brown-winged Striped Bee Fly (Villini sp ES02) | ||||
| This Photo: | Male, dorsal | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We've heard that some insects can have different wing venation on each wing. This is the first time we've photographed a species and seen it for ourselvs. Note the spike on the right is missing on the left. This is probably an individual variation. Thank you to Chris Lambkin for telling us: "The spike is called a spur-vein. In some cases in the Bombyliidae their presence can be diagnostic at the species or even the generic level (very common spur-vein at base of R2+3 in Anthrax), but usually not. Members of Brachyanax have no spur-veins at the base of vein R2+3 or vein R4." It has always been our hope our web site would become a repository for this sort of information and helpful experts like Chris are making it happen | |||||
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