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Species Laphria flavicollis

Laphria sp robber fly? - Laphria flavicollis

Laphria flavicollis? - Laphria flavicollis

Robber Fly (Laphria thoracica?) with prey (Soldier Beetle?) - Laphria flavicollis

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 flavicollis (Laphria flavicollis)

Explanation of Names

Laphria flavicollis Say 1824

Identification

L. flavicollis and L. virginica are easy to confuse. The main gestalt things to look for are the hairiness of the black abdomen: very fuzzy in virginica, somewhat glossy in flavicollis. The golden hair on the top of the thorax looks more swept back and finely constructed in flavicollis, and the legs in virginica have a reddish brown tone to the fuzz in good light. --Herschel Raney, 4.v.2006

Laphria flavicollis has long, straw yellow hairs on the scutellum. L. virginica always shows shorter, black scutellar bristles.-BC

Habitat

e. US (VT-FL to NE-TX) & QC(1)

Internet References

Species profile(2)

Works Cited

1.	Information on robber flies, compiled by F. Geller-Grimm

2.	Lavers N. (2007) The robber flies of Crowley's Ridge, Arkansas: An illustrated field guide

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 22 June, 2005 - 6:11am
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban, Bbarnd, Ben Coulter, v belov
Last updated 24 February, 2018 - 2:14pm

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