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Robber fly

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Photo by Sneha Koppula
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Field Notes

Description:

Robberflies have a stout, spiny legs, a dense moustache of bristles on the face (mystax), and 3 simple eyes (ocelli) in a characteristic depression between their two large compound eyes.

Habitat:

The family Asilidae contains about 7,100 described species worldwide.

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Fabulous Macro snehaincontact
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PublishedNovember 21, 2011

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