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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Proctacanthus » Proctacanthus brevipennis
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robber flies ID? - Proctacanthus brevipennis
Copyright © 2008 Longleaf Environmental Learning Center

robber flies ID? - Proctacanthus brevipennis
Pawleys Island, Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA
May 6, 2008
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Contributed by Longleaf Environmental Learning Center on 26 May, 2008 - 9:18am
Last updated 4 November, 2009 - 3:11pm

Wow! The prey is [i]Anacimas
Wow! The prey is Anacimas limbellatus. This is the first live(?) photograph of the genus I've ever seen and there is no female on BugGuide either! The frons width, calli, eye colors, and antennae match that species (eye color described in the synonym A. geropogon) as described by Stone (1938). Do you have a submission for the prey?
… Arturo Santos, 14 June, 2020 - 1:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Proctacanthus.
… norman and cheryl lavers, 4 November, 2009 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Herschel Raney, 24 July, 2008 - 2:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… john and jane balaban, 17 June, 2008 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

ID
I'm no expert, but maybe Proctacanthus with Tabanid prey.
… Andy Calderwood, 26 May, 2008 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

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