Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Erax from France

Posted by benoit on 09-05-2014 14:08
#1

Hello,

I think that this is an Asilidae of the genus Erax because of the smoked/darkened cross veins and shape of the antennae. Do you agree?

Photo taken the 3 May 2014 in Vaucluse (southern France - 84).

Thank-you
Benoit

Edited by benoit on 10-05-2014 08:44

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 09-05-2014 17:21
#2

Certainly Erax! probably barbatus/punctipennis

Posted by benoit on 10-05-2014 08:28
#3

Thank-you

Posted by jaho on 10-05-2014 09:30
#4

Benoit - and note a characteristic, dense, white hair on the lower part of the scutum, just before the scutellum.

Posted by benoit on 12-05-2014 14:02
#5

Ho yes, it is quite striking.