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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Machimus » Machimus occidentalis
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ID for a robber fly? - Machimus occidentalis - female
Copyright © 2013 nvhamlett@gmail.com

ID for a robber fly? - Machimus occidentalis - Female
Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 14, 2013
This robber fly was spotted in an area of mixed grassland and recovering coastal sage scrub at the Claremont College's Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station. It appears to have caught one of the little scarab beetles, Dichelonyx truncata, that were abundant in the area where this robber was spotted. Any information about its identity will be greatly appreciated!

Note: I rotated the photo 45° in order to make the robber a bit larger. It was actually horizontal.
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Contributed by nvhamlett@gmail.com on 15 April, 2013 - 12:47am
Last updated 15 April, 2013 - 12:33pm

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… nvhamlett@gmail.com, 15 April, 2013 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

Machimus occidentalis, female
Machimus occidentalis, female.
… Eric Fisher, 15 April, 2013 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

 
Cool!
Thanks, Eric! It's great to have an ID – this will be a new species for our field station invert list! I know we have quite a few more unidentified robbers, and I hope to post more. It's not always easy to get sufficient detail for an ID in a photo, however....
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