Laphria grossa

Laphria grossa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Genus:	Laphria
Species:	L. grossa
Binomial name
Laphria grossa (Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms [1]
Asilus grossus Fabricius, 1775 Laphria analis Macquart, 1838 Laphria flavibarbis Harris, 1862 Laphria tergissa Say, 1823

Laphria grossa, the giant laphria, is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

References

1. "Laphria grossa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
2. "Laphria grossa". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
3. "Laphria grossa Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
4. "Common Names". www.robberfliesoftheworld.com. Retrieved 2025-08-14.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN   0-8493-0212-9.
• Bromley, S.W. (1950). "Florida Asilidae (Diptera) with descriptions of one new species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 43: 227–239.
• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
• Hull, F.M. (1962). "Robber flies of the world". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 224.
• McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN   978-0660121253.

External links

• Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
• "Diptera.info" . Retrieved 2018-03-15.