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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 thoracica
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Bee-like Robber Fly - Laphria thoracica - male
Copyright © 2005 Cotinis

Bee-like Robber Fly - Laphria thoracica - Male
Little River Regional Park, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
May 27, 2005
Size: circa 20 mm
Detail of side, legs, etc. Eric Eaton notes the presence of milichiid flies (four visible here), sipping some of the kill of the robber fly.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 4 June, 2005 - 4:33am
Last updated 21 June, 2019 - 10:19pm

Check out the "other" flies!
This is a cool image for another reason: it shows at least two milichiid flies sipping stray bee innards. Apparently these flies are partial to crashing the captures made by bee assassins (Apiomerus, family Reduviidae), but you can often see them at the kills of crab spiders and, obviously, robber flies:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 June, 2005 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

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