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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Laphriinae » Bee-like Robber Flies (Laphria) » sericea complex (Laphria sericea complex)
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Robber Fly - Laphria - male - female
Copyright © 2007 Ilona L.

Robber Fly - Laphria - Male Female
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
May 30, 2007

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Contributed by Ilona L. on 31 May, 2007 - 1:26am
Last updated 2 March, 2015 - 8:44pm

Moved
Moved from / aktis complex.
… Ben Coulter, 2 March, 2015 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee-like Robber Flies.
… Herschel Raney, 28 January, 2009 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

Laphria
Very fine shot of the male and female. L index and L ithypyga are separable only by the male genitals which could be seen on a close shot. Linked as these are, it would not be possible. Does show how the male has quite a bit more white facial hair than the larger female. The other golden haired pair like this are aktis and sericea. And the thorax almost looks like it is tending toward the non-triangular hair arrangement of that pair. Odd, but I think index/ithypyga.

Looking at the dorsal shot, this may be a different species. L aeatus has a different golden pile shape posteriorly. Not strictly narrow triangular. I have never seen that species. And Laphria calvescenta is known only from Michigan but certainly seems to come close to this by description.
… Herschel Raney, 31 May, 2007 - 6:41am login or register to post comments

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