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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 thoracica
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Robber Flies - Laphria thoracica - Laphria thoracica - male - female
Copyright © 2006 Mike Nowak

Robber Flies - Laphria thoracica - Laphria thoracica - Male Female
Capron, Boone County, Illinois, USA
June 12, 2006
There seem to be a great many of these insects about this year (2006). My identification as Laphria thoracica is based upon other entries in this guide but I'm not entirely sure.
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Contributed by Mike Nowak on 17 June, 2006 - 10:55am
Last updated 16 June, 2007 - 3:24pm

Moved
Moved from Bee-like Robber Flies.
… john and jane balaban, 16 June, 2007 - 3:24pm login or register to post comments

It seems to me a good charact
It seems to me a good character for L. thoracica is the yellow on the thorax coming down in front of the wings
… norman and cheryl lavers, 17 June, 2006 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

We're just trying to learn these ourselves
but thought that L. thoracica had an all-black abdomen. Nothing factual in that, just the musings of two struggling amateurs!
… john and jane balaban, 17 June, 2006 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Very nice
Bullington comments that in various places in the range thoracica's abdomen ranges from all black to all yellow. The orangish hair on the legs and the very black mystax (facial hair) help define this otherwise very variable species. He also states some of these forms may be undescribed species. So I think this is the thoracica with the yellow haired abdominal segments up front.
… Herschel Raney, 17 June, 2006 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

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