Robber Flies

Giff Beaton's Robber Flies (Asilidae) of Georgia and the southeast

This is very much a work-in-progress, but click on any of the subfamily photos below to see in the field photos of Robber Flies. Most are identified by specimen, but many are not. Mike Thomas has been instrumental in helping me try to learn this challenging group, and has provided most of the identifications. These pages would not exist without his help... Additional help has come from Herschel Raney and Fritz Geller-Grimm. All comments welcome!

Note- As of June 2009, Torsten Dikow has just published a revision to the Asilidae, in this paper listed here. Basically, for GA, Apocleinae has been moved back into Asilinae and Nicocles and Taracticus have been moved into a new subfamily Bathypogoninae.

Subfamilies of Asilidae
Leptogastrinae	Dasypogoninae	Bathypogoninae
Laphriinae	Laphystiinae	Stenopogoninae
Dioctriinae	Stichopogoninae	Trigonomiminae
Asilinae	Ommatiinae	Species from other areas (planned)

Georgia Checklist Click here for a checklist of Georgia asilids

Here are some useful links concerning asilid identification or biology:
Asilidae	Fritz Geller-Grimm's excellent website for all around information and many links
Raney Robbers	Herschel Raney's robber site, lots of good info, geared partly to Arkansas, plus an Eastern species key.
Laphriini	Steve Bullington's Laphriini pages with a partial key
Robber Flies of Florida	A general site about Florida, no id information
Arkansas Robbers	Some photos of Arkansas robbers, no data

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