Gauromydas heros

Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

 

This species can reach a length of 32–70 millimetres (1.3–2.8 in) and a wingspan of about 10 centimetres (3.9 in). It is the largest species of the entire order of Diptera or true flies.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Diptera

Suborder: Brachycera

Infraorder: Asilomorpha

Superfamily: Asiloidea

Family: Mydidae

Subfamily: Mydinae

Genus: Gauromydas Macquart, 1855

Species: G. heros (Perty, 1833)

Binomial name: Gauromydas heros

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