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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Ceraturgus » Ceraturgus cruciatus
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black and white robber - Ceraturgus cruciatus - male
Copyright © 2015 Mark H Brown

black and white robber - Ceraturgus cruciatus - Male
Cairo Woods, Louisa County, Iowa, USA
June 6, 2015
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Contributed by Mark H Brown on 8 September, 2015 - 10:56pm
Last updated 9 September, 2015 - 6:05pm

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
Thanks, Herschel! Would this one be a female?
… Mark H Brown, 9 September, 2015 - 10:16am login or register to post comments

 
I thought
from some other shots that the male was the yellowish one but I believe looking at the very few shots here this is a male terminus. I will check Jeff's paper and see if he commented on coloration.

Yep, Jeff says the male is white, female yellow banded. Only IA specimens were from Delaware and Story counties. In the 1920s and 30s!
… Herschel Raney, 9 September, 2015 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Great!
I've made the edit to indicate the gender.
… Mark H Brown, 9 September, 2015 - 6:06pm login or register to post comments

Very nice
This is Ceraturgus cruciatus. Not photographed in IA previously I believe. Though recorded. Much less common than the species fasciatus in the NE and this genus in general is still a prize for any insect photographer anywhere.
… Herschel Raney, 9 September, 2015 - 6:33am login or register to post comments

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