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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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Bee like Robberfly - Mallophora bomboides
Copyright © 2006 Randy Emmitt

Bee like Robberfly - Mallophora bomboides
Clay County, Florida, USA
October 3, 2006
Size: 1 inch maybe longer
Nasty looking meany, any one know this one?
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Contributed by Randy Emmitt on 5 October, 2006 - 9:17pm
Last updated 6 October, 2006 - 9:25am

Thanks for the help!
Guys,

I knew this was something when it appeared, while chasing a Berry's Skipper which has always been a hard skipper to find.
… Randy Emmitt, 6 October, 2006 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

Mallophora
Surely this must be Mallophora bomboides. Which I have never seen in real life or in a photo. Supposedly ranges into the December months in the SE. I never see Mallophora shots after August otherwise. Lovely shot. Size and the pale hairs on the terminal segments are enough to get you to this species in Florida.
… Herschel Raney, 6 October, 2006 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

 
Moved to new guide
Well, looks good enough to me--moved to a new guide page for the species.
… Cotinis, 6 October, 2006 - 9:26am login or register to post comments

Mallophora
Looks like a Mallophora. I saw on another image that the slim tips of the antennae differentiate Mallophora from Laphria.
… Cotinis, 6 October, 2006 - 8:20am login or register to post comments

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