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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora) » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Dioctria » Dioctria hyalipennis
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Robber Fly - Dioctria hyalipennis
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Robber Fly - Dioctria hyalipennis
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
June 7, 2005
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Contributed by tom murray on 9 June, 2005 - 9:30pm
Last updated 17 June, 2005 - 6:56am

looks like Dioctria
The enlarged abdomen reminds me of this photo which I thought might be a female Dioctria - slender and relatively non-hairy, non-spiny for a robber fly.
… Robin McLeod, 9 June, 2005 - 10:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Dioctria
It does look most like Dioctria out of the robber flies. Thanks Rogin.
… tom murray, 10 June, 2005 - 6:01am login or register to post comments

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