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07-07-2009, 05:13 PM
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| | | Robber Fly for ID help please
When I first saw this creature I thought it might be one of the Empis family, but a closer examination of the photos makes me think a robber fly is more likely. Looks a bit like one of the Dioctria species but I am a bit out of my depth with these flies.  
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| | | Re: Robber Fly for ID help please
It looks like Dioctria linearis to me. |
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| | | Re: Robber Fly for ID help please
I agree. |
07-07-2009, 08:54 PM
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| | | Re: Robber Fly for ID help please
That is the same answer which I have, very tentatively, written down myself. So I will put it down as Dioctria probably linearis.
Yet another strange creature from those S. Devon woods.
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