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Asilidae

The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their expert predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in…

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related to Further reading · 30
Asilidae → Amphx-Verlag Halle, Asiloidea, Brachycera, British, Bulletin, CD-ROM, Development, Diptera, Family Asilidae, Frank, French, Geller-Grimm, Germany, Handbooks, Harold, ISBN, Joseph-Jean, Musso, OCLC, Oldroyd
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Asilidae → Archived, Bugguide, Comprehensive, Database, EOL Images, EOL ImagesAtlas, Flowers, Fritz Geller-Grimm, German AsilidaeImages, Germany Excellent, IFAS Featured Creatures Web, ImagesFamily Asilidae, Includes, Japanese, LavigneKey, Mallophora, North America, North American, Palaearctic, Robber
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Asilidae → Asilus, Camillo Rondani, Carl Linnaeus, Damalis, During, European, Francis Walker, He, Hermann Loew, Insekten, Jacques Marie François Bigot, Johan Christian Fabricius, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Leach, Linné, Other, Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart, Samouelle, Systema Naturae, Systematische Beschreibung
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Asilidae → Alpheus Packard, Asiloidea, Bombyliidae, Brachycera, Diptera, German, Greek, Hymenoptera, Latreille, Raubfliegen, Robber, Some Asilidae, The, The Asilidae, Therevidae, They
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Asilidae → Adult, Frequently, Hymenoptera, Other, The, They, This
related to Distribution · 5
Asilidae → Alpine, Antarctica, However, In, Northern Hemisphere
related to Habitat and ecology · 5
Asilidae → In, Specific, Their, They, Typical
related to Venom · 5
Asilidae → Functional, Modern, Research, Robber, These
related to Biology · 4
Asilidae → Although, Diptera, The, The Asilidae
related to Systematics · 4
Asilidae → AsilinaeBathypogoninaeBrachyrhopalinaeDasypogoninaeDioctriinaeLaphriinaeLeptogastrinaePhellinaeStenopogoninaeStichopogoninaeTillobromatinaeTrigonomiminaeWillistonininae, The, The Asilidae, Their

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