Thread subject: Diptera.info :: French Asilidae - probably Asilinae

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 18-12-2020 17:27
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Do you have more pictures? This creature looks too robust to be Tolmerus atripes. That species has a mainly black mystax. It looks to me as if the left hind tibia has a reddish base but I'm not sure. Can you confirm that? I would say it is a Machimus female, if the base of the tibiae are reddish than this could be M. fimbriatus. A rather large Machimus species. If the legs are entirely black it becomes near to impossible to ID this one.

Edited by Quaedfliegh on 18-12-2020 17:27