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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)

Genus Laphria - Bee-like Robber Flies

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Robber Fly #2 - Laphria flavicollis - female

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 Laphriinae

Genus Laphria (Bee-like Robber Flies)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Bombomima Enderlein

Explanation of Names

Laphria Meigen 1803

Greek Laphria (Λαφρια), an epithet of Artemis

Numbers

62 spp. in our area, 240 total(1)

Identification

Key to NA spp. in (2)

Key to AR spp. in (3)

Key to eastern Canadian spp. in (4)

Range

worldwide, most diverse in Eurasia and NA(1)

Food

adults predaceous on flying insects, including bees and other robber flies

larvae predaceous of rotten wood insects

Life Cycle

Pupa, under tree bark

Remarks

spp. still not in the guide:

Laphria aeatus Walker 1849

Laphria aimatis McAtee 1919

Laphria calvescenta Baker 1975

Laphria carbonaria (Snow 1896)

Laphria carolinensis Schiner 1867

Laphria fattigi (Bromley 1951)

Laphria flavescens Macquart 1838

Laphria flavipila Macquart 1834

Laphria georgina Wiedemann 1821

Laphria lasipes Wiedemann 1828

Laphria melanogaster Wiedemann 1821

Laphria milvina Bromley 1929

Laphria nigella (Bromley 1934)

Laphria rapax Osten Sacken 1877

Laphria royalensis (Bromley 1950)

Laphria semitecta (Coquillett 1910)

Laphria terraenovae Macquart 1838

Laphria vivax Williston 1883

See Also

Mallophora, Dasylechia atrox & other bee-mimicking robber flies; Bumblebees, Bombus

Internet References

(5)

Works Cited

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

2.	Key to the Nearctic species of the genus Laphria (Diptera:Asilidae) McAtee W.L. 1918. Ohio J. Sci. 19: 143-172.

3.	Herschel Raney's Random Natural Acts: Robber Flies

4.	Laphria (Diptera: Asilidae) of Ontario, with a key to the eastern Canadian species of Laphriini and Dasylechia

5.	The Laphriini Pages

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 26 July, 2004 - 8:42am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Ben Coulter, ceiseman, v belov, Chuck Sexton
Last updated 31 January, 2022 - 5:54pm

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