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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Ceraturgus » Ceraturgus elizabethae
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possible robber fly - Ceraturgus elizabethae
Copyright © 2011 Mark H Brown

possible robber fly - Ceraturgus elizabethae
Great Smoky Mountains NP, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
June 15, 2011
Size: around 2 cm
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Contributed by Mark H Brown on 25 July, 2011 - 7:49am
Last updated 25 July, 2011 - 7:49pm

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… v belov, 25 July, 2011 - 7:49pm login or register to post comments

Always
A fine find. And though we have found this species in Arkansas and there is a record from Kentucky (single known from 1963), Missouri (single record 1935) this appears to be the first TN record. Defined by specimens in 1922 in NC, this is Ceraturgus elizabethae. Still a Holy Grail insect for anyone with a camera. Nice work. And fifty dollars to the man or woman who shoots its associate species C. mitchelli in Arkansas.
… Herschel Raney, 25 July, 2011 - 7:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice!
What a thrill to learn that such a beautiful insect is also rare. Thanks for the info and ID!
… Mark H Brown, 25 July, 2011 - 9:22pm login or register to post comments

looks cool and special
Moved from Flies.
… v belov, 25 July, 2011 - 10:25am login or register to post comments

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