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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Scleropogon » Scleropogon picticornis
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Large brown robber - Scleropogon picticornis - female
Copyright © 2013 Don Verser

Large brown robber - Scleropogon picticornis - Female
Black Mesa, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA
October 10, 2013
Size: 20 mm, maybe larger
On Black Mesa trail
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Contributed by Don Verser on 30 October, 2013 - 7:46pm
Last updated 29 September, 2018 - 6:19pm

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 31 October, 2013 - 7:49pm login or register to post comments

Beauty
Of a female Stenopogoninae member in far western OK. May be a new species for that area. Does not look like it is in Ospriocerus.

Will forward to Dr. Fisher.
… Herschel Raney, 31 October, 2013 - 7:03am login or register to post comments

 
Scleropogon picticornis I bel
Scleropogon picticornis I believe (always with the polished side-stripes on the abdomen).
… Eric Fisher, 31 October, 2013 - 7:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Apparently impressively variable in the colors involved in those side markings.
… Herschel Raney, 31 October, 2013 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention.
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 30 October, 2013 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

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