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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 canis
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Small blue-black robber - Laphria canis - male
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Small blue-black robber - Laphria canis - Male
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 22, 2006
Size: ~11mm
Found this small blue-black robber at Harms Woods today. He looked like a Laphria but a quarter of their size.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 22 June, 2006 - 10:19pm
Last updated 23 June, 2006 - 12:53pm

Laphria
Looks like Laphria canis with that large male genital bulb. Laphria sicula and winnemana have smaller male genitalia.
… Herschel Raney, 23 June, 2006 - 8:50am login or register to post comments

 
Wow! Even at only ~11mm?
This one seemed so much smaller than the other Laphria we've been seeing.
… john and jane balaban, 23 June, 2006 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

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