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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Laphriinae » Cerotainia » Cerotainia albipilosa
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Black hoverfly - Cerotainia albipilosa
Copyright © 2007 Victor Engel

Black hoverfly - Cerotainia albipilosa
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
July 15, 2007

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Contributed by Victor Engel on 16 July, 2007 - 1:14pm
Last updated 2 August, 2011 - 4:16pm

Moved
Moved from Cerotainia.
… Victor Engel, 2 August, 2011 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cerotainia.
… Herschel Raney, 2 November, 2009 - 1:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
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Robber
I will send Norm over (you know, electronically speaking). He has both flying in his yard.
… Herschel Raney, 16 July, 2007 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Cerotainia
Well, it has a lot of white hair on the legs (not as much as some), but that is an albipilosa character (there is less hair, and yellower, on macrocera, which is the only other species in the genus).

The hovering behavior is not typical. Usually they sit at the tip of a twig, and fly up after small winged prey, and bring it right back to the twig.
… norman and cheryl lavers, 16 July, 2007 - 3:59pm login or register to post comments

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