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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Dasypogoninae » Hanging-thieves (Diogmites) » Diogmites platypterus

Species Diogmites platypterus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Dasypogoninae
Genus Diogmites (Hanging-thieves)
Species platypterus (Diogmites platypterus)
Explanation of Names
Diogmites platypterus Loew 1866
Size
21-28 mm(1)
Identification
The dark Diogmites in the south. Looks amazingly like a black species of paper wasp when flying low and slow in vegetation. The shining dark scutellum or thoracic shield is almost characteristic, along with the nearly all-dark abdomen.(1)
Range
e. US (MD-GA to MI-CO-TX)(2)
Habitat
Heavy field vegation and field margins. Not found in shaded woods.
Season
Mid to late summer
Food
Prefers small Hymenoptera
Internet References
Species page(3)
Works Cited
1.The genus Diogmites in the eastern United States
Artigas J.N. 1966. Ohio J. Sci. 66: 401-421.
2.Information on robber flies, compiled by F. Geller-Grimm
3.Herschel Raney's Random Natural Acts: Robber Flies
Contributed by Cotinis on 19 July, 2005 - 6:00am
Additional contributions by hraney, v belov
Last updated 7 March, 2015 - 8:55am

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