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Cerdistus erythrurus

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Cerdistus erythrurus
Male, dorsal view
Male, side view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Asilidae
Genus: Cerdistus
Species:
C. erythrurus
Binomial name
Cerdistus erythrurus
(Meigen, 1820) [1]
Synonyms

Asilus erythrurus Meigen, 1820

Cerdistus erythrurus is a species of robber fly in the subfamily Asilinae. It is the type species of the genus Cerdistus.

Distribution

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This species is present in Southern Europe (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and former Yugoslavia).[2]

Description

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Cerdistus erythrurus can reach a body length of about 8–9 millimetres (0.31–0.35 in).[3] These rather little robber flies are mainly black. Legs are black, with reddish tibiae. In males the modified last abdominal segment supporting the copulatory apparatus (hypopygium) may be partly reddish.

Adults can be found from May to July–August.[citation needed]

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