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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Efferia » Albibarbis group (Efferia Albibarbis group) » Efferia albibarbis
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Robber Fly - Efferia albibarbis - male
Copyright © 2008 Robert Lord Zimlich

Robber Fly - Efferia albibarbis - Male
Gulf Shores (Little Lagoon), Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
June 8, 2008
Size: 1 - 1.25"
Not sure which this is. The abdomen really throwing me off

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Robber Fly - Efferia albibarbis - male Robber Fly - Efferia albibarbis - male
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 9 June, 2008 - 7:41am
Last updated 9 November, 2017 - 10:09am

Moved
Moved from Efferia albibarbis.
… Herschel Raney, 22 October, 2008 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Albibarbefferia group.
… Herschel Raney, 24 July, 2008 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

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

Actually
This is Efferia [Albibarbefferia] albibarbis male.
… Herschel Raney, 24 July, 2008 - 2:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks for the ID. I found this one near the seashore at Gulf Shores, Alabama, which makes sense now.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 24 July, 2008 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… john and jane balaban, 16 July, 2008 - 12:46am login or register to post comments

Some kind of
Robber Fly, but I don't know them too well. Cool bug though.
… Steven Price, 9 June, 2008 - 7:56am login or register to post comments

 
thanks. I've narrowed it to
thanks. I've narrowed it to a male Efferia aestuans
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 9 June, 2008 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

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