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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Ceraturgus » Ceraturgus elizabethae
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unknown fly - Ceraturgus elizabethae
Copyright © 2006 Roger Rittmaster

unknown fly - Ceraturgus elizabethae
Fews Ford Section, Eno River State Park, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
July 8, 2006
Size: circa 20 mm
Found along Eno River with Patrick Coin
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Contributed by Roger Rittmaster on 8 July, 2006 - 12:56pm
Last updated 23 July, 2006 - 8:57pm

Nice find!
Moved to new species page.
… Beatriz Moisset, 20 July, 2006 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

Angles?
Any other angles? This may be a robber fly in the rare Ceraturgus genus. Wish I could see the antenna more closely. Send the full shot to my private email so I can brighten and have a closer look. All shots of this genus, when they are not C. cruciatus, are scientifically important if this is Ceraturgus.

I will have Jeff Barnes take a look. He is currently revising the genus for North America.
… Herschel Raney, 8 July, 2006 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Ceraturgus
Jeff confirms this is Ceraturgu elizabethae.
… Herschel Raney, 10 July, 2006 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Awesome
Oh, excellent. I had seen this and pointed it out to Roger as being a Polistes, and then thought it was a Mydas fly, based on the antennae. It posed for several shots by Roger, and then as I moved in, it took off (rats).

I added a few details to the photo caption--this was at the Fews Ford section of Eno River state park, and I believe this is in Orange County--just west of the line with Durham County. (Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.) The habitat was vegetation in the floodplain of the Eno adjacent to a wooded slope. This area is right by a trail, and about 1/8 mile from a parking lot. (I came back a couple of days later to look for it but had no luck.) I recall the size as being about the same as a Polistes--about 20 mm, or a tad larger.

Excellent find Roger, and great work on the ID everybody.
… Cotinis, 23 July, 2006 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

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