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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Bee Killers (Mallophora) » Mallophora bomboides
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Asilidae Fly Family, Mallophora orcina - Southern Bee Killer - Mallophora bomboides
Copyright © 2012 Fitz O.Clarke, Jr.

Asilidae Fly Family, Mallophora orcina - Southern Bee Killer - Mallophora bomboides
Skidaway Island, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
September 20, 2012
Asilidae Fly Family, Mallophora orcina - Southern Bee Killer with victim (?) Note small fly midway on right wing. Confirmation please
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Contributed by Fitz O.Clarke, Jr. on 22 September, 2012 - 8:05pm
Last updated 13 October, 2012 - 6:52pm

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… v belov, 13 October, 2012 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

Mallophora bomboides
This is actually Mallophora bomboides, not M. orcina. M. bomboides has tergites 1-3 yellow, T4-5 black, and then T6-8 yellow again. M. orcina has T1-4/5 yellow and T5-8 black.
… Tristan McKnight, 3 October, 2012 - 11:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Tristan-I am most appreciativ
Tristan-I am most appreciative for your corretion as to species being,Mallophora bomboides, not M. orcina. In the future I will refrain from making the stretch to species.
… Fitz O.Clarke, Jr., 4 October, 2012 - 6:56am login or register to post comments

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