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Species Tipulogaster glabrata

Tipulogaster glabrata? - Tipulogaster glabrata

Slender robber fly - Tipulogaster glabrata

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 Leptogastrinae

Genus Tipulogaster

Species glabrata (Tipulogaster glabrata)

Explanation of Names

Tipulogaster glabrata (Wiedemann 1828)

Identification

the shellacked look of the thoracic dorsum distinctive among thin Leptogaster (Herschel Raney)

Range

QC-FL to NE-TX(1)

Food

Like others of this group, glean stationary prey from vegetation. Sometimes take spiders in their webs (discussion)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by tom murray on 29 September, 2005 - 7:37pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2015 - 9:01pm

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