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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 flavicollis
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Laphria flavicollis - male
Copyright © 2007 Cotinis

Laphria flavicollis - Male
Penny's Bend Reserve, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
June 1, 2007
Size: 14 mm
Size estimated. I finally got close enough to one of the Laphrias I see every spring to get some good photos. See comments on identification. (And thanks for correction, 6/19/13!)
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Contributed by Cotinis on 9 June, 2007 - 12:05am
Last updated 19 June, 2013 - 3:53pm

Moved
Moved from Laphria virginica.
… Cotinis, 19 June, 2013 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

L. flavicollis
Laphria virginica has the scutellar hairs black, not yellow. This one appears to be L. flavicollis.
… Ben Coulter, 18 June, 2013 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee-like Robber Flies.
… Cotinis, 9 June, 2007 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

robber
you might want to wait for Herschel to give the final word, but i think this is a fine picture of a male Laphria virginica. L. flavicollis are very close though.
… edward trammel, 9 June, 2007 - 3:30am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Excellent, thank you. I'll move to Laphria virginica absent any refutation from Herschel.
… Cotinis, 9 June, 2007 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

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