| Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks |
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Drosophilidae |
Fruit flies. The larvae of most species are fungivorous, some eating the yeasts in decaying fruit. The family is widely distributed with a concentration of species in north-eastern Queensland. The family Tephritidae are more appropriately called fruit flies. [247 Aust. species] |
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| Drosophila melanogaster | Drosophila sp. | filename: gvc0570 | |
All pictures © Copyright Graeme V. Cocks 2004. All rights reserved.
References:
Insects of Australia (Chapter 39: Diptera)
D.H. Colless and D.K. McAlpine
CSIRO, Division of Entomology
1137pp (2 volumes), Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1999.
page 778