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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Megaphorus » Megaphorus clausicellus
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Robber Fly 06 - Megaphorus clausicellus
Copyright © 2006 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

Robber Fly 06 - Megaphorus clausicellus
Gloster, Gloster Arboretum, Amite County, Mississippi, USA
July 14, 2006
Size: body length 16.3
We believe this is in the genus Megaphorus.
gayle

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 17 July, 2006 - 9:32pm
Last updated 4 March, 2008 - 4:54pm

Moved
Moved from Megaphorus laphroides.
… tom murray, 4 March, 2008 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

16mm??
Wow. That is one large Megaphorus. M. clausicellus and M. laphroides likely occur in your area. I don't have sizes for those. See the website for our local species. Yours is much too large for that.
… Herschel Raney, 17 July, 2006 - 10:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Mega
Eric thinks this is Megaphorus laphroides.

But specimen in hand, this has absolutely no black hair on the abdominal tergites whatsoever. Seems to make it M. clausicellus.
… Herschel Raney, 2 August, 2006 - 10:37pm login or register to post comments

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