INDEX FLIES OF MALAYSIA

 

Fly families

Robber flies (Asilidae) · Blow flies (Calliphoridae) · Asian tiger mosquito (Culicidae) · Long-legged flies (Dolichopodidae) · Dance flies (Empididae) · Stilt-legged flies (Micropezidae) · Flesh flies (Sarcophagidae) · Soldier flies (Stratiomyidae) · Hover flies (Syrphidae) · Fruit flies (Tephritidae)

Field records with a date and a place

A wasp-like fruit fly with red eyes, a black-and-cream thorax and banded wings, on graph paper
A fruit fly that looked like a wasp — Tephritidae, tribe Adramini. River Esplanade, Bandar Sri Indah, 23 November 2014.

A stalk-eyed fly with red eyes on long stalks, on a dead leaf at Bukit Gemok
A fly with its eyes on stalks — Diopsidae, the stalk-eyed flies. George Mais Trail, Bukit Gemok, 13 July 2015.

A grey-and-black bristly fly on a green leaf beside the Bombalai Hill trail
A bristly fly on the buffer strip — Oestroidea, the blow flies, flesh flies and tachinids. Bombalai Hill trail, 17 September 2026.