''Saropogon dispar'' is a species of robber flies (insects in the family Asilidae). Zoologists have reported seeing this species at Natches Pond, Fort Sill

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. Photographers have also observed larger specimens in Jefferson County. They found that the Jefferson County Saropogons were at flowering buttonbushes and were also picking off insects. In Texas Saropogon dispar is the most injurious species of

robber fly The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive pre ...

; they frequent apiaries. A bee keeper destroyed more than 700 of these flies in a single bee yard in a three-day period.

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