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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Species Diogmites angustipennis

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora))
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Asilidae (Robber Flies)
Subfamily Dasypogoninae
Genus Diogmites (Hanging-thieves)
Species angustipennis (Diogmites angustipennis)
Other Common Names
Prairie Robber Fly
Size
25 mm
Remarks
Guide TBA--PC.
Works Cited
1.Insects in Kansas
By Glenn A. Salsbury and Stephan C. White