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Southern Bee Killer - Mallophora orcina
Copyright © 2004 Hannah Nendick-Mason

Southern Bee Killer - Mallophora orcina
Gainesville, Florida, USA
June 26, 2004
I keyed this out from the Florida Featured Creatures site as Mallophora orcina, based on abdomen yellow-haired above, black beneath. Confirmed by checking Giff Beaton's image
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Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 5 September, 2004 - 10:57am
Last updated 3 August, 2006 - 6:32pm

Nifty--differentiation from Laphria?
Do you know how to tell this genus from Laphria, which also look like bumblebees? I've seen lots of similar robbers here in NC, and I've been calling them Laphria. I may have been misidentifying them! (

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 5 September, 2004 - 11:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Mallophora
The Mallophora all have a very fine terminal antennal segment. No other robber bumble mimic has this except the holy-grail robber Dasylechia. Laphrids have a thickened paddle shaped terminal segment.
… Herschel Raney, 27 May, 2005 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

 
I wasn't very scientific about it.
I just checked the images of Laphria and other robber flies on this site and Giff Beatons, and they didn't look right for body shape and facial features, so I kept looking!
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 6 September, 2004 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

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