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Robber Fly #4 - Laphria flavicollis - male
Copyright © 2006 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

Robber Fly #4 - Laphria flavicollis - Male
Gloster, Gloster Arboretum, Amite County, Mississippi, USA
May 13, 2006
Size: body length 18.8 mm.

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 15 May, 2006 - 6:47pm
Last updated 16 May, 2006 - 6:30pm

Laphria flavicollis
Nice job catching only males. This is Laphria flavicollis. The much more common southern spring Laphria that love understory woodlands and especially the broad leaftop perches of poison ivy.
… Herschel Raney, 16 May, 2006 - 7:36am

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