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Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Robber Fly, Dioctria linearis?, 1 by wallaby1

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wallaby1 wrote:
I have compared it with another 'pair' I have now, which have the same/similar legs as each other so I think they are male and female.

I just imagined the female having the broader abdomen, I think it was another species which has a broader female, D. rufipes

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/P5/P57399.php

Mating pair

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/P5/P57398.php

Which I am wondering if they are my other pair.

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/P5/P57392.php

http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/aol/image?query=dioctria rufipes&...

It's eating one of my cute Yellow Swarming Flies!