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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 - Laphria - female
Copyright © 2007 Jason Forbes

Robber - Laphria - Female
Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 16, 2007
Looks like Laphria sericea complex
Any chance the angle is good enough for the actual species?

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Contributed by Jason Forbes on 16 June, 2007 - 7:26pm
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

Laphria
On the females the 7th segment should be mostly golden in sericea and black in aktis. Tough call here but it looks dark. Pure white and black mystax and beard in this female also points to aktis as well.
… Herschel Raney, 16 June, 2007 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks Herschel
Probably a dumb question, but how many segments do robbers have?
… Jason Forbes, 17 June, 2007 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Never saw this
But they have 8 or 9 visible abdominal segments but generally everything past eight in most groups is modified into something on the genital terminal portions. You can count from 1st segment back to 7th on yours here with this nice abdominal profile.
… Herschel Raney, 20 January, 2009 - 9:19am login or register to post comments

 
LOL - sounded like a reasonable Q to me!
Really great color and detail. EXIF says 400mm, so it is the 100-400 by Canon? ...I've always wanted one!
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 10 January, 2008 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

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