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Genus Thereva

Robber Fly? - Thereva bakeri - male Robberfly ? - Thereva fucata - female Fly - Thereva Unknown Fly - Thereva Striped fly, maybe Therevidae? - Thereva - male Tiger-striped diptera - Thereva fucata - female Maybe Thereva? - Thereva Thereva fucata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Therevidae (Stiletto Flies)
Subfamily Therevinae
Genus Thereva
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Thereva Latreille 1796
'hunter'
Numbers
35 Nearctic species (of which one adventive)(1)
Range
much of the world
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Nearctic Thereva (Diptera: Asiloidea: Therevidae)
Holston K.C., Irwin M.E. 2005. Studia Dipterologica, Supplement 13: 1-223.