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Genus Saropogon

Saropogon with Phthiriine Prey - Saropogon luteus

Saropogon combustus - Saropogon - female

Unknown robber fly (Diogmites? Saropogon?) - Saropogon

Saropogon coquilletti? - Saropogon coquilletti

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 Dasypogoninae

Genus Saropogon

Explanation of Names

Saropogon Loew 1847

Numbers

20 spp. in our area, ~130 total(1)

Identification

key to species(2)

Range

worldwide, ~a half of spp. are palaearctic, less that ¼ in the New World; in our area, sw. US (S. combustus reaches NE)(1)

Works Cited

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

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

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 14 June, 2006 - 8:37pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2015 - 12:21pm

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