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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 sackeni
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Robber Fly bumble bee mimic - Laphria sackeni
Copyright © 2018 ckremen

Robber Fly bumble bee mimic - Laphria sackeni
Jewel Lake in Tilden Park, Contra Costa County, California, USA
May 26, 2018
Size: approx 1 inch
found on an oak tree near pond around 2:30 PM

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Robber Fly bumble bee mimic - Laphria sackeni Robber Fly bumble bee mimic - Laphria sackeni
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Contributed by ckremen on 26 May, 2018 - 6:20pm
Last updated 28 May, 2018 - 10:46am

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 28 May, 2018 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

Laphria sackeni; probably a male.
Thorax with pleural sclerites all black-haired, = L. sackeni. Fly looks very teneral (soft & pale, recently emerged from puparium).

Cheers, Eric.
… Eric Fisher, 28 May, 2018 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Eric!
Thought of sackeni after going over Stephen Bullock's on-line key, but only in the 'back of my mind' because I was busy processing some bee specimens from transmontane San Gabriel Mountains.
… Hartmut Wisch, 28 May, 2018 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 May, 2018 - 8:56pm login or register to post comments

Thinking Laphria sp.
but not certain. Have asked Ed Fisher to comment. He will certainly know this.
Thanks for the contribution.
… Hartmut Wisch, 26 May, 2018 - 6:38pm login or register to post comments

 
My apologies,
meant Eric Fisher! Don't know where my mind was.
The present fly looks like a male to me.
… Hartmut Wisch, 26 May, 2018 - 11:20pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
Thank you Harmut

Is this a common sort of species? I hadn't seen it before. My nephew (age 11) spotted it.

Oh also -- is it a female? It looked like possibly an ovipositor? it was quite torpid so I think maybe fairly freshly emerged.
… ckremen, 26 May, 2018 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

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