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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Dasypogoninae » Nicocles
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Asilidae, dorsal - Nicocles - male
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Asilidae, dorsal - Nicocles - Male
Stone State Park, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA
October 10, 2014
Size: 9 mm
non-target species, sweep in prairie

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 26 October, 2014 - 7:36am
Last updated 18 September, 2016 - 8:39am

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 October, 2014 - 1:37pm login or register to post comments

Appears
to be the state record for genus Nicocles in Iowa. And I assume this is pictus (though I have forgotten politus/pictus separation features at the moment), the one angle shows it is a male. And those terminal pollinose segments likely shown silvery bright.
… Herschel Raney, 26 October, 2014 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes,
those terminal pollinose segments are silvery bright, although I could not capture in a photo what I was seeing.
… MJ Hatfield, 26 October, 2014 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 October, 2014 - 8:01am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
All the patterns, especially the wings, made me question family ID.
… MJ Hatfield, 26 October, 2014 - 8:55am login or register to post comments

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