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 Me too: French Guiana Asilid
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| Stephen |
Posted on 20-01-2012 19:57
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
I got only only two shots, both from the same angle, and I got the exposure wrong though I have tried to correct it here. Such a robust, massive, thorax! 27 May 2011, Montsinéry, French Guiana. Low elevation, moist forest. Stephen attached the following image:  [135.13Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-01-2012 20:03
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like a Mallophora sp. but let's wait for Eric to confirm. They are bumblebee mimics, usually of Eulaema spp. 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| christoophe |
Posted on 20-01-2012 20:07
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 Member Location: France Provence Posts: 1995 Joined: 06.02.08 |
With the two-tone hair on tibia 3, I play Mallophora tibialis. But Eric's opinion is more safer  There is a second diptera on the picture. |
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| christoophe |
Posted on 20-01-2012 20:10
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Member Location: France Provence Posts: 1995 Joined: 06.02.08 |
ChrisR is too fast  |
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| Quaedfliegh |
Posted on 20-01-2012 21:11
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 Member Location: Tilburg Netherlands Posts: 2219 Joined: 18.05.10 |
Cute!!!!! Almost as big as the meta tarsus.
Edited by Quaedfliegh on 20-01-2012 21:12 Greetings, Reinoud Field guide to the robber flies of the Netherlands and Belgium: https://www.jeugdbondsuitgeverij.nl/product/field-guide-to-the-robberflies-of-the-netherlands-and-belgium/ https://www.nev.nl/diptera/ |
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| Eric Fisher |
Posted on 21-01-2012 01:32
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 Member Location: California Posts: 435 Joined: 19.05.06 |
Well, definitely a Eulaema-mimic Mallophora sp. I don't think it is M. tibialis though, as the banding pattern on the abdomen isn't quite right, and the mystax is yellow, not black. We need to see the wings too: in M. tibialis, the basal third is deep black, the middle third clear, and the apical third thinly black. |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 21-01-2012 12:25
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Thanks so much for the help with this handsome fly!
--Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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