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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora) » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Laphriinae » Cerotainia
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Fly - Cerotainia
Copyright © 2006 Sandy Spitalnik

Fly - Cerotainia
Central Park, NYC, New York, USA
July 10, 2006
Size: approx. 8mm
Can this be ID'd to species? Thank you
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Contributed by Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik on 9 July, 2006 - 11:36pm
Last updated 15 February, 2007 - 12:55am

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 15 February, 2007 - 12:55am login or register to post comments

It looks like a small robber
It looks like a small robber fly in the large genus Laphria. If so it will be difficult to get a species.
Charles
… CharlesMatson, 20 July, 2006 - 12:35am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Charles, for pointing us in the right direction. Perhaps Laphria canis complex has some close matches. Sandy&Lloyd
… Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik, 5 October, 2006 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

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