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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Ceraturgus » Ceraturgus elizabethae
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wasp-mimic fly - Ceraturgus elizabethae
Copyright © 2018 aubrey wiggins

wasp-mimic fly - Ceraturgus elizabethae
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
June 8, 2018
Initially landed on flowers with wings spread in T-shape.
Did not have time to look for halteres, but suspect this is a fly.
About the size of a paper wasp. Had a distinctive buzz
when it flew, not a wasp like sound.
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Contributed by aubrey wiggins on 8 June, 2018 - 11:43am
Last updated 17 June, 2018 - 10:36am

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.

The antennae are very long. I'm not sure of the gender.
Please compare: (eastern)
… Bob Biagi, 17 June, 2018 - 10:36am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mydas Flies.
… Even Dankowicz, 17 June, 2018 - 10:16am login or register to post comments

 
Yikes! I should've caught that.
I've got to learn to slow down.

Nice save. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 17 June, 2018 - 11:21am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 8 June, 2018 - 10:25pm login or register to post comments

Maybe a Mydas?
… john and jane balaban, 8 June, 2018 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

 
Sure looks like it!Thank yo
Sure looks like it!
Thank you!
But wondering now about yellow behind eyes and no yellow (that I can see) on antennae. Could this be sex-related or variation in species?
… aubrey wiggins, 8 June, 2018 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

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