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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Mydinae » Mydas » Mydas tibialis
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Big Black Bug ;-) What Am I - Mydas tibialis
Copyright © 2008 Keith Brown

Big Black Bug ;-) What Am I - Mydas tibialis
Indianapolis 4800 east 00 north/south, Near eastside inside city proper Marion County, Indiana, USA
July 18, 2008
Size: 5 CM wing spam abt 8 CM

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Big Black Bug ;-) What Am I - Mydas tibialis Big Black Bug ;-) What Am I - Mydas tibialis
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Contributed by Keith Brown on 19 July, 2008 - 1:09pm
Last updated 9 September, 2008 - 4:13pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Eric R. Eaton, 9 September, 2008 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

guess
Hi Keith here's a link to a wasp picture I took that was ID'd as a mydas wasp. See what you think.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/179961
… Matt Edmonds, 19 July, 2008 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Photo #179961 is mislabeled
is mislabeled as a wasp. It should be a labeled as a fly rather than a wasp...

Your is, in my opinion, a mydas fly but I have no idea which species...

Look through http://bugguide.net/node/view/2761/bgimage
… Ron M., 19 July, 2008 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

 
UGH!!
Thanks Ron, you're right! I thought it was a wasp when I submitted it and then didn't think to change the label when I moved it to the species page.
I'll do that now.
… Matt Edmonds, 19 July, 2008 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Mydas tibialis.
Pretty distinctive species, seems to mimic Sphex nudus, though the flies tend to be larger than their wasp models!
… Eric R. Eaton, 19 July, 2008 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

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