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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Stiletto Flies (Therevidae) » Therevinae » Thereva » Thereva brunnea
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Thereva frontalis? - Thereva brunnea - female
Copyright © 2007 Kevin H. Wirth

Thereva frontalis? - Thereva brunnea - Female
Port Orchard, Kitsap County, Washington, USA
July 4, 2006
Size: .5"

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Thereva frontalis? - Thereva brunnea - female Thereva frontalis? - Thereva brunnea - female
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Contributed by Kevin H. Wirth on 29 June, 2007 - 11:21am
Last updated 11 April, 2018 - 1:43pm

Moved
Moved from Thereva.
… john and jane balaban, 13 August, 2008 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

First time I saw one, I thought it was a robber, too.
If I've got this right, and I'm pretty sure I do, it's a bee fly - Aphoebantus. See:
… Ron Hemberger, 29 June, 2007 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Not so sure
Thanks Ron... but you know, if you look at the spacing between the eyes, there isn't a match here.

Looks much closer to thereva frontalis, don't you think?

For example:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/20575#40005
… Kevin H. Wirth, 29 June, 2007 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Good going. Yes, Thereva looks better than my guess.
I don't know stiletto flies and may have mucked up the ID. Veins in the wings are a good way to cement an identity, but we don't have enough detail here. In flies, the face can be important, but eye spacing is often a matter of sex:
… Ron Hemberger, 29 June, 2007 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

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