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Genus Neoitamus

ID for a robber fly? - Neoitamus - female Asilid assistance please? - Neoitamus orphne - female Robber Fly with Crane Fly prey - Efferia? - Neoitamus - male Robber Fly (Lasiopogon female?) with prey - Neoitamus - female Robber fly came to UV light - Neoitamus flavofemoratus - female Asilidae - Neoitamus Neoitamus robber fly - Neoitamus flavofemoratus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Asilidae (Robber Flies)
Subfamily Asilinae
Genus Neoitamus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Itamus Loew 1849 (preocc.)
Explanation of Names
Neoitamus Osten-Sacken 1878
Greek neos (νεος) 'new' + Itamus, the previous name for the genus, from itamos (ιταμος) 'headlong, hasty, eager, bold'
Numbers
7 spp. in our area, 60 total(1)
Identification
"odd female genitalia and small size overall are distinctive" --Herschel Raney
On his website, Raney states:
"The elongate abdomen gives these almost a female Efferia look but this abdomen is in separate segments with the final segment being incorporated into the genitalia."
"The five-segmented female genitalia show this is Neoitamus." -- norman and cheryl lavers (2)
Some examples of females showing this character:



See also images from Photographic atlas and identification key to the Nearctic genera of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) for genus Neoitamus.