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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Bee Killers (Mallophora) » Mallophora leschenaulti
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Beelzebub Bee-eater - Mallophora leschenaulti - Mallophora leschenaulti
Copyright © 2007 John Cowsar Jr

Beelzebub Bee-eater - Mallophora leschenaulti - Mallophora leschenaulti
Garden Ridge/San Antonio, Comal County, Texas, USA
September 2, 2007
I think this Mallophora is a male? Please compare to the separate Mallophora leschenaulti submitted today which I think was a female. I believe this prey to be the paper wasp, Polistes exclamens.

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Contributed by John Cowsar Jr on 3 September, 2007 - 8:47am
Last updated 13 September, 2007 - 3:53pm

Indeed
And this is the first male I believe I have ever seen. Not sure I knew they were over in San Antonia too. It was thought they came in on a hurricane in the past, which seemed odd. It is more likely they started in TX after some compost was hauled in for some pig pens in TX.
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