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26 Records
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This impressive species is among the largest robber flies in North America by weight, although large, elongate asilid species may exceed its body length of 23-35 mm (Bromley 1934). Laphria grossa flies with a very audible loud buzz, and resembles a queen bumblebee in flight. It tends to frequent hardwood forest, and males often take up perches on vegetation adjacent to a large log or stump, especially oak or elm. Like most Laphria, L. grossa is active as an adult primarily in early to mid-summer.
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A Giant Laphria in Howard Co., Maryland (6/14/2021). Determined by Ben Coulter/BugGuide.
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Jim Moore.
A Giant Laphria in Harford Co., Maryland (6/20/2016). Determined by Ben Coulter/BugGuide.
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Shannon Schade.
A male Giant Laphria in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/7/2011). Determined by Norman and Cheryl Lavers/BugGuide.
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Bill Johnson.
A Giant Laphria in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/22/2019). Determined by Ken Wolgemuth and Ben Coulter via BugGuide.
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Jim Moore.
A Giant Laphria in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/21/2023). (c) Mauro Dutra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Mauro Dutra via iNaturalist.
A male Giant Laphria in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/7/2011). Determined by Norman and Cheryl Lavers/BugGuide.
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Bill Johnson.
A Giant Laphria in Carroll Co., Maryland (6/25/2011). Determined by Herschel Raney/BugGuide.
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Bill Johnson.
A Giant Laphria in Allegany Co., Maryland (7/9/2006).
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Steve Collins.
A Giant Laphria in Howard Co., Maryland (7/17/2019).
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Bonnie Ott.
A Giant Laphria in Baltimore City, Maryland (7/15/2008). Determined by Ben Coulter and Herschel Raney/BugGuide.
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Thomas Wilson.
A Giant Laphria in Ashland Co., Ohio (7/25/2012).
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Jay Cossey.
A Giant Laphria in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/18/2022). (c) Benjamin Burgunder, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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Benjamin Burgunder via iNaturalist.
A Giant Laphria in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/21/2023). (c) Mauro Dutra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Mauro Dutra via iNaturalist.
A Giant Laphria in Calvert Co., Maryland (6/30/2017).
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Ben Springer.
Source: Wikipedia
Laphria grossa | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Asilidae |
Genus: | Laphria |
Species: | L. grossa
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Binomial name | |
Laphria grossa (Fabricius, 1775)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Laphria grossa is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Laphria grossa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Laphria grossa". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Laphria grossa Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
- Bromley, S.W. (1950). "Florida Asilidae (Diptera) with descriptions of one new species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 43: 227–239.
- Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- Hull, F.M. (1962). "Robber flies of the world". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 224.
- McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.
External links
[edit]- Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-03-15.