Image of Microstylum morosum Loew 1872

Description:

"Microstylum morosum - female 20 September 2014: Walked about at Rockwood Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and came upon a very large dark brown and black robberfly with green eyes. Subsequent attempts to IDentify this robberfly led us to BugGuide and there Herschel Raney IDentified it as Microstylum morosum (female). As we recall it being said elsewhere recently on iNat, this particular robberfly is the largest fly to fly the skies of Texas. Our thanks to Herschel Raney of BugGuide and also Ken Woglemuth for overseeing the administration of our query to the site. We were only able to take one digital image of Microstylum morosum before it sped off and thus the images affixed to this observation all come from the one pic. The IDentity to this robberfly can be found here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1142507 We've not returned to Rockwood Park in the past year but it may very well be worth making a return trip. Rockwood Park is administered by the City of Fort Worth, Texas. Note: Here's the classification from BugGuide: Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Microstylum » Microstylum morosum Source: ""Dark Brown & Black Green-eyed Robber Fly - Microstylum morosum - Female,"" BugGuide, IDed on 25 September 2015 by Herschel Raney, accessed on 9.25.15, http://bugguide.net/node/view/1142507"