Robber Fly (Saropogon pyrodes)
Saropogon pyrodes Alberts and Fisher, 2022. Found about 0.7 km ExNE of Amado in southern Arizona. Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA.
Found this beauty as I was walking back to my car mid-afternoon on a very warm day. It was hanging around the low grasses at the periphery of a Pogonomyrmex ant nest in grassland type habitat on floodplain(?) of Santa Cruz River, which at the time was a dry wash. It alternated perches between the low grasses, short dead stems poking up from the soil, and the soil surface.
Found here: 31.70944N 111.05693W
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.
Robber Fly (Saropogon pyrodes)
Saropogon pyrodes Alberts and Fisher, 2022. Found about 0.7 km ExNE of Amado in southern Arizona. Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA.
Found this beauty as I was walking back to my car mid-afternoon on a very warm day. It was hanging around the low grasses at the periphery of a Pogonomyrmex ant nest in grassland type habitat on floodplain(?) of Santa Cruz River, which at the time was a dry wash. It alternated perches between the low grasses, short dead stems poking up from the soil, and the soil surface.
Found here: 31.70944N 111.05693W
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.