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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Dasypogoninae » Hanging-thieves (Diogmites) » Diogmites crudelis
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Hanging Thief Robber Fly - Diogmites crudelis
Copyright © 2005 Tony DiTerlizzi

Hanging Thief Robber Fly - Diogmites crudelis
Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
September 26, 2005
Size: ~2 cm
This photo was taken at the Frenchman's Forest Natural Area.
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Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 5 October, 2005 - 11:01am
Last updated 16 February, 2007 - 8:16pm

Moved
Moved from Hanging-thieves.
… Herschel Raney, 16 February, 2007 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

Fantastic shot!
With spring coming to West Virginia, I'm just getting back into this. I'm browsing your photos and this is one couldn't be much better. Are you using a ring light? Where do you set the aperture for shots like this?
… Timothy Robert Nichols, 17 March, 2006 - 11:23am login or register to post comments

 
Hey Tim,
Thanks for the kind words. I don't use a ring light, and the camera is auto-adjusting for the aperture. (I'm really a point-n-shoot guy).

My equipment is listed on my bio page, just click my name to view it. Basically with a shot like this, I would angle the flash to fill in the shadows...
… Tony DiTerlizzi, 17 March, 2006 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

I just gotta say wow!
WOW!
… David Moll, 6 October, 2005 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

Tony,
Awesome photo!
… Lynette Elliott, 5 October, 2005 - 1:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Lynette!
This is the only shot I have of it with the head at this angle, it was watching something flying around...
… Tony DiTerlizzi, 5 October, 2005 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

Diogmites
Excellent eye color capture. Hard to see the thoracic markings but they look too faint to be the common Florida species D. esuriens. Florida also has D salutans and D crudelis. I don't know how variable crudelis is but it is supposed to have only faint brown stripes paired centrally.
… Herschel Raney, 5 October, 2005 - 11:57am login or register to post comments

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