Blepharotes coriarius

Blepharotes coriarius
Blepharotes coriarius in the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Asilidae
Subfamily: Apocleinae
Genus: Blepharotes
Species: B. coriarius
Binomial name
Blepharotes coriarius
Wiedemann, 1830

Blepharotes coriarius, the giant yellow robber fly is a robber fly from Australia in the family Asilidae. It is 45 mm. in length. It was described by the German naturalist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann in 1830.


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