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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) » Laphria lata
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BG1075 D0106 - Laphria lata - male
Copyright © 2007 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

BG1075 D0106 - Laphria lata - Male
Gloster, Gloster Arboretum, Amite County, Mississippi, USA
June 29, 2007
Size: body length 24 mm.
This one is a puzzle to us. It is smaller than the alleged Laphria_lata/grossa and has orange hair on the mid tibia. The color on the abdomen is more extensive than expected for L_marquarti. The genitalia are quite different from the recently posted specimen here. The genitalia are also different from the species represented by these photos here and here, but similarity is noted to these.
Comments/identification appreciated
Gayle

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 21 August, 2007 - 10:16pm
Last updated 28 January, 2009 - 11:54am

Moved
Moved from Bee-like Robber Flies.
… Herschel Raney, 28 January, 2009 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Gayle and Jeanell Strickland, 26 December, 2007 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

Laphria
Interesting. And I have compared both of the genitalia shots from your two Laphria. I wish I had a lata/grossa specimen at home but I don't at the moment. The two images you have are pretty similar. I have no genitalia images from papers. And previoulsy I thought only lata could have this orangey look in one of its forms. See Giff Beaton's Laphria apila which is very orange. I think he collected that as well.
http://www.giffbeaton.com/2003-06-26_OcmulgeeRiv@GA96.jpg
This is not macquarti. No one has seen a fattigi. There are no other large species known. Unfortunately there are no experts on this genus except Bullington and he is off the map.

Also, no male fattigi has ever been described that I know of. This is not apila unless males can be much hairier than described. I will try again to have Bullington take a look.
… Herschel Raney, 22 August, 2007 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

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