China single feather Asilidae cophinopoda chinensis fabricius
Taxonomic status Insecta Diptera diptera insecat Shorthorn suborder brachycera Pirates TABANIDAE aslidae
China Shan Yu, also known as China Asilidae Pirates gadfly, is our common Asilidae, Japan, Korea and other countries also have distribution. Adult predators can prey on many insects, bugs such as Hemiptera, Coleoptera Staphylinidae and so on. Such bodied insects, flying fast, often stopped on the stem, seen flying prey fly rush, with flexible, powerful and strong enough to grip the assassination how small prey, even the mighty beetles, are often unable to escape.
Asilidae besides physically strong, flying fast, but have to have good information receiving system, that vision is better. It has a large, bright eyes. Vision is so important, strong protection is a must. In order to prevent damage to the eyes and struggling prey, particularly around Asilidae compound eyes in front of numerous long coarse bristles, is to protect the eyes from being hurt. After the capture prey, they inject their prey with digestive juices, and then into a liquid digest the prey inhalation.
These features Asilidae, making them the devil in the insect world. People in some horror films, video games also used it as a model to shape the role. Shown is a male Chinese Shan Yu Asilidae prey Dolycoris baccarum. Some might even prey male Asilidae as "bride price" to give females expect female of all ages.
Asilidae larvae are usually fed plants. |
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