Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Asilidae on the beach => Taurhynchus sp.

Posted by Eric Fisher on 13-03-2017 17:58
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Beautiful shots Jorge! Top is a male Taurhynchus sp. (essentially = a Proctacanthus with a keeled proboscis, T-shaped in X-section).

Below is probably same -- except very teneral (and just emerged from pupal case projecting from sand!).

Cheers,

Eric