Species Ospriocerus abdominalis

Classification

red abdomen robber fly - Ospriocerus abdominalis - male

Robber or Mydas ventralis? - Ospriocerus abdominalis

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 Stenopogoninae

Genus Ospriocerus

Species abdominalis (Ospriocerus abdominalis)

Contributed by tom murray on 21 July, 2005 - 4:00pm

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