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 Diminutive Robber
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| Stephen |
Posted on 11-08-2006 17:15
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Another dimunutive Robber Fly. There were hundreds of these, only 25 meters or so from the Ohio River. Taken two days ago. Size was small, especially for a Robber Fly. Maybe subfamily Laphrininae? Stephen attached the following image:  [71.4Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 11-08-2006 17:17
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Second image
Stephen attached the following image:  [65.13Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 11-08-2006 17:18
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Third and last image
Stephen attached the following image:  [58.75Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 11-08-2006 17:25
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Laphrinae/Cerotainia sp.? (checked bugguide.net) |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 11-08-2006 17:34
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7236 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Hi Stephen. I agree with Black - see http://www.dipter...ad_id=2619. Hopefully Eric may confirm this for us. Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 11-08-2006 18:25
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Thank-you Black and Tony! That genus and even that species do look like good matches. Plenty of white hairs there. & Tony, I agree that this one looks like the same species as the one I submitted a mere two weeks ago. I should have looked through my backfile. I suppose I was thinking this was something new, since it was in an unusual environment beside a large river (the other was photographed outside my house last summer). Ah, at age 49 my memory isn't what it once was! Thanks again to both of you for the ID. --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Eric Fisher |
Posted on 13-08-2006 15:04
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 Member Location: California Posts: 435 Joined: 19.05.06 |
Stephen, Nice shots of Cerotainia albipilosa. (Yesterday, I posted my reply to the wrong thread [viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=2619]; Doh!) Eric |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 13-08-2006 15:38
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Eric, Thanks very much for your help with this one!
--Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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