Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diminutive Robber

Posted by Stephen on 11-08-2006 18:15
#1

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?

Posted by Stephen on 11-08-2006 18:17
#2

Second image

Posted by Stephen on 11-08-2006 18:18
#3

Third and last image

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-08-2006 18:25
#4

Laphrinae/Cerotainia sp.? (checked bugguide.net)

Posted by Tony Irwin on 11-08-2006 18:34
#5

Hi Stephen.
I agree with Black - see http://www.dipter...ad_id=2619. Hopefully Eric may confirm this for us.

Posted by Stephen on 11-08-2006 19:25
#6

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.

Posted by Eric Fisher on 13-08-2006 16:04
#7

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

Posted by Stephen on 13-08-2006 16:38
#8

Eric, Thanks very much for your help with this one!