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Robber fly ID
Toby
can you tell from underside which sp. this is? Richmond Pk, SW London. June. Looking through the gallery i'm guessing a Dioctria sp.?

www.pbase.com/racketman/image/62391725.jpg
Edited by Toby on 01-04-2007 00:09
 
Toby
think I may have now found it in BioImages using the Dioctria lead. D. baumhaueri?
Edited by Toby on 01-04-2007 00:11
 
Danny Wolff
Should be Dioctria atricapilla (legs completely black, wings partly darkened ...). Prey looks like a Leptogaster.

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Toby
mmmh, I think this side view might support D. baumhaueri - see http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P3/P39395.php

www.pbase.com/racketman/image/61815861.jpg
 
Danny Wolff
Well, if you are sure that it is the same specimen (having lost its prey and changed its resting place?), then you are right with D. baumhaueri, which we call D. hyalipennis in Central Europe. (Curious that nothing of the pale leg-colour is to be seen in your first image). Such dark hyalipennis are very seldom in Central Europe.

Greetings, Danny
 
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Paul Beuk
They are not the same species (leg coloours are off). Top is atricapilla, bottom is hyalipennis (= baumhaueri).
Paul

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Kahis
The females are not conspecific. While most of the yellow could be hidden in the first picture, some parts (base of femora and trochanters) are clearly yellow on the anterior face on the 2nd fly, but black on the 1st.
Kahis
 
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Toby
my mistake the images were captured two weeks apart. Thanks for the IDs.
 
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