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Platystomatidae

   Signal Flies. Adults mainly feed on fresh mammalian faeces. Larvae are found in tunnels left by burrowing beetle larvae, also in plants damaged by other insects. Some species have dark bands on the wings.     [236 Aust. species]
Duomyia sp. A Duomyia sp. B Duomyia sp. C Euprosopia sp. A
       

  
Euprosopia sp. B Euprosopia sp. 12 Lamprogaster imperialis Lamprogaster tricauda
       
Naupoda sp. Rivellia sp.A (female) Rivellia sp. A (male) Rivellia sp. B (female)
       
  filename: gvc0998 Plagiostenopterina sp. A filename: gvc4917 filename: gvc2751
       

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 770