Figure 1. Phylogenetic arrangement of Diptera showing the more advanced Brachycerans and the position of the Asilidae (robberflies) within it. It was again Linnaeus, or Linne, who described these ...

Robber Flies (Assassin Flies), Family Asilidae. These flies are predators that hunt and feed on other insects. They are the third most diverse group of flies, with more than seven thousand species ...

This is all changing with the opening of the Angela Marmont Centre for UK biodiversity. With over 7000 species of fly in the UK we should be kept busy hunting for a while 3705 Views 4 Comments 0 ...

Books Received Published: 27 July 1929 Typical Flies: a Photographic Atlas of Diptera Nature 124, 124 (1929) Cite this article ...

Upside down flies Entomologist David McAlpine, now retired from the Australian Museum, spent much of his life studying Diptera. He was the first scientist to examine a set of flies with an unusual ...

This is a Bee-like Robber Fly that was most likely collected from Virginia. It is black, yellow, and brown in color, and measures around 2 cm x 2 cm x 1.5 cm in size. Number of objects in this record ...