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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Mydinae » Mydas
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Robber Fly Pupa - Mydas
Copyright © 2012 Troy Mullens

Robber Fly Pupa - Mydas
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
July 7, 2012
Asilidae
Det. Martin Hauser, 2012
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 9 July, 2012 - 9:16am
Last updated 24 March, 2019 - 12:54pm

Moved
Moved from Mydinae.
… Even Dankowicz, 24 March, 2019 - 12:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Asilid Pupal Cases/Larvae.
… Even Dankowicz, 12 July, 2018 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

 
you are right, I did this a b
you are right, I did this a bit too quickly, it really looks like a Mydidae and not an Asilid! Thanks for correcting!
… Martin Hauser, 13 July, 2018 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Herschel Raney, 14 July, 2013 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for moving
Thanks for moving to pupal cases.
… Troy Mullens, 15 July, 2013 - 9:21am login or register to post comments

Exuviae of Robber Fly.
Thanks for the ID Martin. Suzanne Tuttle, Mgr. of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, originally discovered this and passed it on to me to photograph.

The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting
for our senses to grow sharper.
~W.B. Yeats
… Troy Mullens, 9 July, 2012 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Mike Quinn, 9 July, 2012 - 12:25pm login or register to post comments

Asilidae
very nice...
… Martin Hauser, 9 July, 2012 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

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