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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Stenopogon » Stenopogon californiae
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Stenopogon californiae - male
Copyright © 2008 Hartmut Wisch

Stenopogon californiae - Male
Below Barley Flats, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, USA
July 15, 2008
Size: 20 mm
Looks like a Stenopogon, male, though I'm not certain. This one is sitting on a buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum ), a good place to find prey.
I do have the specimen and will try to get it identified.
Update: ID with help from Jim Hogue (CSUN), using key in Wilcox (1971; see INFO page). Subsequently matched with vouchered specimen.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 16 July, 2008 - 12:14am
Last updated 16 July, 2008 - 5:17pm

Excellent
Shot and excellent detective work. Would love to see some of these western Stenos identified to species.
… Herschel Raney, 24 July, 2008 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Herschel -
Perhaps, with some more specimen we might arrive at a few more species identifications.
… Hartmut Wisch, 24 July, 2008 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

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