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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Proctacanthella » Proctacanthella exquisita
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Dining Robber Fly - Proctacanthella exquisita
Copyright © 2016 Steven Mlodinow

Dining Robber Fly - Proctacanthella exquisita
Picketwire Canyon, Otero County, Colorado, USA
May 28, 2016
Canyon bottom in Mesa de Maya -- a plateau of highlands stretching along NM and CO border, east from Rockies to OK's Panhandle. Steep red-rock wall with scattered junipers. Broad canyon floor well vegetated with grass, forbes, cactus. Center with stream lined by willow thickets.

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Dining Robber Fly - Proctacanthella exquisita Dining Robber Fly - Proctacanthella exquisita
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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 7 June, 2016 - 7:51am
Last updated 17 June, 2016 - 5:04pm

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 17 June, 2016 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

Appears
to be a very fine image of a Proctacanthella male. And in CO that limits the choices. I think it is likely exquisita. See what you think of the males on that page. This will be the shot I link to that species on my species pages for sure.
… Herschel Raney, 17 June, 2016 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

 
P exquisita
Fabulous scientific name. Thanks for the compliments and the ID. The match seems excellent, and this individual does not match the other 3 species of Proctocanthella shown on BugGuide, either.
… Steven Mlodinow, 18 June, 2016 - 8:31am login or register to post comments

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 9 June, 2016 - 9:32pm login or register to post comments

Hope
I hope you can get an id - I haven't had much luck in western KS - must be too many similar species and the experts need the actual bug.
… Dave Rogers, 7 June, 2016 - 9:55am login or register to post comments

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