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Robber Fly #4 - Laphria virginica - male

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

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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.

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