#i have all 4 species of promachus im likely to encounter now

[mutillids]

Promachus fitchii (all three specimens in the top row) is reportedly rare east of the Missisipi. Good thing I'm not over there, I see these guys all the time. The promachids I encounter tend to be locally abundant in a given area, almost all of the ones inside my town are P. bastardii, and further out into the country I see more P. fitchii. Who knows if that's anything more than just chance.

These two species both have males with white tufts of setae on the end of their abdomens, but as you can see from the second pair of images P. fitchii is more a golden shade of brown, and has a red-green iridescence to its eyes.

#asilidae #promachus #diptera #entomology #i have all 4 species of promachus im likely to encounter now #will eventually make a post of that but dont have the photos #2022