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I'm just back from a holiday in Switzerland. Marvellous mountains, with many robberflies! I hope this forum can ID the ones I photographed :D

This one I only saw at ca 1900 altitude, in half open coniferous woodland. They may rest on the mountain paths but more often I saw them on tree trunks. Medium sized for a robberfly, say ca 15 mm. The yellow bands are especially conspicuous is the fly lands and holds its wings open.

Although I'm not sure, I guess these are male and female - though I don't know what is the male, so that information would be useful too!

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and the other sex

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and here is the view when it has just landed but not yet closed its wings

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It's Cyrtopogon ruficornis (male and female). Males have very uncommon front tarsi. Please add your images to Wikipedia: http://commons.wi...y:Asilidae - Thanks

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Thanks for the quick reply! What's sp special about the male's front tarsi?


I'll do that, as well as to this site's gallery....

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Please check the front tarsi on image one: they are elongated and narrow - very uncommon, but known from some other genera, too, like Leptarthrus. Yours