Species Diogmites properans

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Print References

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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 properans (Diogmites properans)

Size

Body length: 15-28 mm (average 22 mm)

Identification

"A medium-sized species with three black stripes on the mesonotum and black dorsal bands on the abdomen....D. properans is similar to salutans, but can be distinguished from it by the three velvety black stripes on the mesonotum; the mesonotal stripes in salutans are brownish" (Artigas, 1966).

Range

Known from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida.

Print References

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

Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 14 July, 2005 - 1:18pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 25 July, 2006 - 12:50am

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