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Golden Hanging Thief

Diogmites bilobatus

Classification

Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Asilidae

Diogmites is a genus of mainly neotropical flies in the family Asilidae or robber flies. Description Medium to large-sized robber flies (17–48 mm) with mostly minute body hair, thoracal bristles are mostly confined to a row on the mesonotum and two bristles on the scutellum. The mystax is of relatively modest size and is made up of comparatively few bristles, which do not or barely overlap the beak in side view.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 7Mexico · 1