Saropogon dispar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Asilidae
Genus: Saropogon
Species:
S. dispar
Binomial name
Saropogon dispar

Saropogon dispar is a species of robber flies (insects in the family Asilidae).[1][2][3][4]

Zoologists have reported seeing this species at Natches Pond, Fort Sill Oklahoma. Photographers have also observed larger specimens in Jefferson County. They found that the Jefferson County Saropogons were at flowering buttonbushes and were also picking off insects.[5]

In Texas Saropogon dispar is the most injurious species of robber fly; they frequent apiaries. A bee keeper destroyed more than 700 of these flies in a single bee yard in a three-day period.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Saropogon dispar Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  2. ↑ "Saropogon dispar species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  3. ↑ "Saropogon dispar". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  4. ↑ "Saropogon dispar Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  5. ↑ "Robber Fly: Saropogon dispar". 22 July 2009.
  6. ↑ "Midwest Biological Control News". www.entomology.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on 2000-01-24.


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