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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Laphriinae » Bee-like Robber Flies (Laphria) » Laphria thoracica
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Laphria - Laphria thoracica
Copyright © 2007 Ben Coulter

Laphria - Laphria thoracica
Millcreek Twsp., Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 6, 2005
Been puzzling over this Laphria for a while. How much yellow can L. thoracica show in the face?

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Contributed by Ben Coulter on 12 April, 2007 - 6:54pm
Last updated 18 July, 2014 - 11:03am

Laphria
That is an awful lot of yellow. But the legs and thorax and other features of this robber are all L thoracica. No one is studying the Laphria. Bullington moved on to forensic entomology the last I heard. And though I have a copy of his PhD dissertation on Laphria, I doubt it will ever be published. However, he did not study the large species. Someone needs to take a series of males up there and compare the genitalia.
… Herschel Raney, 12 April, 2007 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

 
cool
Thanks for confirming that it is L. thoracica. I just rediscovered the pics of this beast while checking out some photo CDs from a couple of years ago. Pretty sure I called it L. thoracica in the field.

That's a shame about Bullington. His website was an amazing resource for Laphria.
… Ben Coulter, 13 April, 2007 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

 
duplicate
another duplicate post. please delete.
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… Ben Coulter, 13 April, 2007 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

Holy ****!
That is an incredibly sharp image! What kind of lens do you use? And did you use a ring flash?
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 12 April, 2007 - 9:20pm login or register to post comments

 
nope
That image was taken with a crappy little Nikon Coolpix 995, with the on-camera flash. It's been cropped and resized and sharpened.
… Ben Coulter, 12 April, 2007 - 9:27pm login or register to post comments

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