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Genus Ospriocerus

Unknown Robber Fly - Ospriocerus Large Black & Red Robber Fly - Ospriocerus vallensis Unknown Robber Fly - Ospriocerus Ospriocerus aeacus Ospriocerus aeacus Dipteran visiting Lepidium chalepense - Ospriocerus aeacus Male robber fly - Ospriocerus - male Ospriocerus? - Ospriocerus
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 Stenopogoninae
Genus Ospriocerus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ospriocerus Loew 1866
Numbers
17 spp. in our area, 24 total(1)
Identification
Too many important characters are hidden in photos; many Ospriocerus spp. mimic the same models (wasps) and hence look very much alike. This is one of the genera that I insist on having the specimen in hand in order to make an accurate ID. --Eric Fisher, pers.comm. to =v= 22.vii.2015
Remarks
Revised in(2)
Works Cited
1.Information on robber flies, compiled by F. Geller-Grimm
2.A revision of Ospriocerus (Diptera: Asilidae)
Martin C.H. 1968. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4 35: 401-424.