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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 sericea

Species Laphria sericea

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Robber Fly - Laphria sericea The next week - Laphria sericea robber fly - Laphria sericea unknown fly - Laphria sericea Robber Fly - Laphria sp.? - Laphria sericea Laphria sericea - male
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 Laphriinae
Genus Laphria (Bee-like Robber Flies)
Species sericea (Laphria sericea)
Explanation of Names
Laphria sericea Say 1823
Identification
Nearly identical to Laphria aktis and another undescribed species. Clear view of male terminal appendages necessary for identification from photographs. Females not separable from photos.

Difficult to impossible to distinguish from L. aktis or the undescribed species from photographs. Photos that are not conclusively identified should be placed in the sericea complex.
Range
e. US (VT-GA-?FL to MN-CO-TX) & ON(1)
Works Cited
1.Information on robber flies, compiled by F. Geller-Grimm
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 14 June, 2005 - 5:46pm
Additional contributions by hraney, Ben Coulter, v belov
Last updated 20 July, 2015 - 9:42pm

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