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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Polacantha gracilis

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Asilidae (Robber Flies)
Subfamily Asilinae
Genus Polacantha
Species gracilis (Polacantha gracilis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Asilus auratus Johnson 1895
Explanation of Names
Polacantha gracilis (Wiedemann 1828)
Range
Coastal se. US (MD-FL)(1)