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Robber Fly
Amblyonychus sp.
-22.5384, -43.2285
Field Notes
Description:
Robber flies, or Asilidae, constitutes one of the largest and most abundant families of insects distributed through all parts of the world, on over 400 genera, with critters measuring from 5 to 30 mm, possibly larger, with top of head depressed between eyes, with three ocelli in the depression, a very hairy or nearly bare body, typically elongated, with tapered abdomen, face usually "bearded", with prominent mystax, mouthparts modified to inject prey with saliva, similar in both sexes (unlike in blood-sucking flies, such as Tabanidae), antennae three-segmented, third segment elongate and often with terminal style.
Habitat:
These Asilidae were near the jungle of Atlantic Forest, in a place where they are very easy to be found all years, between the months of January and March.<br><br>
The female is eating a prey that, certainly, was captured before the couple start to copulate.
Notes:
The town of the coordinates (lat: -22.538400, long: -43.228468) that I used for search, is not DUQUE DE CAXIAS, as reports the search map tool of this page, but PETRÓPOLIS, as shown here:<br><br>
https://www.google.com/maps/place/22%C2%B032'18.2%22S+43%C2%B013'42.5%2…
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