Machimus setibarbus

Machimus setibarbus is a species of fly in the family Asilidae, the robber flies and assassin flies.

Machimus setibarbus
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Asilidae
Genus: Machimus
Species:
M. setibarbus
Binomial name
Machimus setibarbus
(Loew, 1849) [1]
Synonyms

Asilus setibarbus Loew, 1849

Distribution

This species is widespread in Europe (Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Croatia, Germany, Finland, Greece, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Norway, Russia, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia), North Africa (Tunisia), and in the Near East (Israel).[2][3]

Description

Machimus setibarbus can reach a body length of about 16–27 millimetres (0.63–1.06 in).[3] These robber flies have a face beard with distinctly stout bristles and four-eight scutellar marginal bristles. Legs are entirely black, but sometimes knees are paler. Moreover front femur do not show ventrally distinct stout bristles, but only hairs.[4]

gollark: They're great trade fodder.
gollark: OR ARE THERE?
gollark: ***nebula***
gollark: They have stars on them.
gollark: Solar eclipse = Sticking things in front of a nebula.

References
  1. Biolib
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. Fritz Geller-Grimm, Torsten Dikow, Robert J. Lavigne Description of M. setibarbus in Robber flies of Germany
  4. Fritz Geller-Grimm, Torsten Dikow, Robert J. Lavigne Identification key to the species of the Machimus-group


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