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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Laphriinae » Atomosia
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Robberfly side view - Atomosia
Copyright © 2005 Joshua Stuart Rose

Robberfly side view - Atomosia
Northgate Park, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
July 6, 2005
When I took these photographs, I thought these critters were some kind of really tiny robberfly. On reviewing the photos, I thought they looked more like Therevidae than Asilidae. But since I posted them three different people wrote to me saying my first impression was correct, Asilidae, specifially genus Atomosia, and probably species puella.

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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 18 July, 2005 - 10:59pm
Last updated 20 July, 2005 - 12:09am

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