Species Diogmites misellus

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Print References · Works Cited

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 misellus (Diogmites misellus)

Size

Body length 16-23 mm, average 20 mm

Identification

Smallest Diogmites. Central stripe on top of thorax shades to red towards front (Artigas, 1966).

Range

Eastern United States: Massachusetts west to Illinois, Kansas, south to Texas, Florida.

Habitat

Dry, open areas, such as lawns, fields.

Season

July-September (North Carolina)

Food

Feeds on diptera and on ants (!), often by picking off of grass stems.

Print References

Brimley, p. 336, lists as Deromyia misellus, from North Carolina (state-wide) July-September (1).

Artigas, The Genus Diogmites in the Eastern United States. THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 66(4): 401, July, 1966, available here.

Works Cited

1.	Insects of North Carolina By C.S. Brimley

Contributed by Cotinis on 13 July, 2005 - 5:42am
Last updated 25 July, 2006 - 12:42am

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