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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Echthodopa » Echthodopa pubera
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Robber or Mydas Fly? - Echthodopa pubera
Copyright © 2013 Aaron Eckley

Robber or Mydas Fly? - Echthodopa pubera
Marion; Indian Creek Nature Center, Linn County, Iowa, USA
May 30, 2013
This fly was seen skimming through tall grass in a prairie...which was what made me think its a robber. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks.
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Contributed by Aaron Eckley on 31 May, 2013 - 2:18pm
Last updated 1 April, 2020 - 8:20pm

Moved
Moved from Echthodopa.
… Chris Cohen, 1 April, 2020 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Ken Schneider, 13 July, 2015 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

It's a dark photo,
but it looks like Echthodopa, perhaps E. pubera. A new state record for the genus in Iowa!
… Chris Cohen, 13 July, 2015 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

Wing
veins eliminate Laphria and Pogonosoma. But certainly not the wing veins of a Mydas.
… Herschel Raney, 21 August, 2013 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Schneider, 20 June, 2013 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

robber
… v belov, 31 May, 2013 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

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