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Machimus sp? from Crete
nick upton
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Posted on 07-12-2013 16:14
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A medium sized robberfly - around 15mm hunting in coastal scrubland on Crete in late May. Looks very similar to Machimus modestus I photographed in Croatia, but I can only find records for that in Eastern Europe and Turkey, so this may be a lookalike.
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A head on view:
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