Black Short-winged Robber Fly - Bathypogon nigrinus
Family Asilidae
This page contains pictures and information about Black Short-winged Robber Flies that we found
in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 18mm
- This robber fly is medium in size and dark grey in colour. All its legs are
dark grey. The outer edge white line of its thorax form a large white circuit. Its abdomen is long and half is extended longer than its wings.
- Wings are tinted in dark brown colour. The antenna is three segmented and without terminal style.
- This robber fly likes to rest on the ground.
- This robber fly is common in Brisbane bushlands.
- The mating pair.
- Reference:
- 1. Australian Asilidae - Dr. Robert Lavigne, Honorary Research Associate, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA.
- 2. A new species of Bathypogon Loew (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) from South Australia with notes on its behaviour - Lavigne, R.J. 2006, Studia dipterologica 13(2): 171-179.
