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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 sackeni
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Bumble-bee Robber fly - Laphria sackeni
Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Wright

Bumble-bee Robber fly - Laphria sackeni
Evey Canyon, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
June 28, 2009
Based on the distributions given in S.W. Bulllington's key, I assume this is L. astur and it keys out to this species; the black hairs on the scutellum are just visible in this photo. Can someone confirm?
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Contributed by Jonathan Wright on 31 March, 2010 - 12:52pm
Last updated 25 June, 2014 - 12:10pm

Moved
Moved from Laphria astur.
… Herschel Raney, 31 March, 2010 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

Laphria sackeni -- because of
Laphria sackeni -- because of the entirely black-haired thoracic pleural region.
… Eric Fisher, 31 March, 2010 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Many thanks, Eric. I assume t
Many thanks, Eric. I assume the black pleural hairs trumps the yellow-versus black tibial hairs mentioned in the Bullington key. This species would appear to be a Batesian mimic of Bombus vosnesenskii.
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