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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Machimus » Machimus erythocnemius
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Machimus paropus or erythocnemius? - Machimus erythocnemius - male
Copyright © 2012 DeeDee

Machimus paropus or erythocnemius? - Machimus erythocnemius - Male
PR315, near Bird Lake, Manitoba, Canada
August 16, 2012
Size: aprox 16mm's
With the absence of a solid black mid-dorsal stripe and the presence of black bristles on venter of the pro-femora, I eliminated M. erythocnemius from the running. M. paropus supposedly has black bristles on thorax but this guy has some light-coloured ones as well. Thoughts?

[edit] - From further study of comments here on BG, I see M. erythocnemius may also have black bristles on venter of pro-femora.

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Contributed by DeeDee on 19 August, 2012 - 11:37am
Last updated 3 December, 2018 - 8:07pm

Moved
Moved from Machimus.
… DeeDee, 3 December, 2018 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
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