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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Laphriinae » Bee-like Robber Flies (Laphria) » Laphria thoracica
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Bee-like robber fly? - Laphria thoracica
Copyright © 2009 brandyr

Bee-like robber fly? - Laphria thoracica
between Mankato and St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota, USA
June 28, 2009
Size: maybe 1.5 inches long?
I found this guy in the woods, not too far from a creek. It was calmly sitting on this leaf even as joggers passed by. The trail I was on is used by hikers, bikers, horses, and dogs.

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Bee-like robber fly? - Laphria thoracica Bee-like robber fly? - Laphria thoracica
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Contributed by brandyr on 3 July, 2009 - 12:34am
Last updated 13 November, 2009 - 4:27pm

Moved
Moved from Laphria grossa.
… norman and cheryl lavers, 13 November, 2009 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

Well, I think I would go with
L. thoracica over L. grossa. Thoracica has a black mystax, grossa yellow, thoracica has the yellow on the thorax come down the side in front of the wings, grossa keeps the yellow in a cap on the thorax above the wings, thoracica has black hair on the legs with some orange hairs, grossa has black on the legs with lots of yellow. Some thoracica have more or less yellow on the abdomen, others none.
… norman and cheryl lavers, 13 November, 2009 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

Possibly Laphria thoracica
… Karl Hillig, 3 July, 2009 - 7:08am login or register to post comments

 
thank you
Thanks for the comment and confirmation of my robber fly suspicion. I posted two images of the individual and got two different species IDs, but at least they were both Laphria, which maybe is as close as I can hope for with these pics?
… brandyr, 3 July, 2009 - 9:26pm login or register to post comments

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