Striped Slender Robberfly - Leptogaster cylindrica
Feet without pads. Hind femur is yellowish. Third antennal segment ends in bristle. Resembles a crane fly in flight.
Leptogaster guttiventris is similar but has reddish hind femur.
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Hunts in grassy places.
May to August.
Flies slowly amongst grass plucking aphids from the leaves.
Widespread in the southern half of Britain, but scarce further north.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Mark Skevington
Huncote Embankment
20 June 2012
David Nicholls
Priory Water
03/07/2017
David Gould
fields near Fosse Park
24 June 2018
rockfowl
Aylestone Meadows
07 July 2019
David Gould
fields near Fosse Park
08 June 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Striped Slender Robberfly
- Species group:
- Flies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Asilidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 14
- First record:
- 20/06/2012 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 08/07/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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Matthew Berriman
George Henry Wood
15 June 2020
sue
Thornton Meadows
31 May 2020
rockfowl
Aylestone Meadows
07 July 2019
