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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Laphria franciscana - Western Black Laphria

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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 Laphriinae
Genus Laphria
Species franciscana (Western Black Laphria)
Explanation of Names
Laphria franciscana Bigot 1878

Western Black Laphria: https://www.robberfliesoftheworld.com/NA_CommonNames.php
Range
w. NA (BC-CA-ID)(1)