Thread subject: Diptera.info :: BIG robberfly for ID

Posted by Isidro on 22-10-2007 18:13
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Yesterday I go to the field, between "Burgo de Ebro" and "Salada de Mediana", in the middle Ebro valley, Aragon, Spain. The habitat is dry steppe-land, dominated by Artemisia herba-alba, Lygeum spartum, Rosmarinus officinalis, Salsola vermiculata, Gypsophila hispanica and other xeric plants. The fly sizes about 45 mm. It lokks like Asilus in wing colour and size, but the abdomen is entirely black and very sharp-shaped.

Someone could get me an ID?

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Thanks ;)