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Ant-assassin Chiselmouth
Cerotainiops abdominalis
Cerotainiops abdominalis is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae. The species is known to prefer to prey upon Pogonomyrmex ants, but, when temperatures are high, they will prey upon beetles, such as Collops limbellus.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 700340.