Blepharotes splendidissimus

Taxobox | name = "Blepharotes splendidissimus"

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image_caption = "B. splendidissimus",
Bexley, New South Wales
image_caption = "Bombylius major"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Asilomorpha
superfamilia = Asiloidea
familia = Asilidae
subfamilia = Apocleinae
genus = "Blepharotes"
species = "B. splendidissimus"
binomial = "Blepharotes splendidissimus"
binomial_authority = Wiedemann, 1830

"Blepharotes splendidissimus" is a robber fly in the family Asilidae found in Eastern Australia. Recognised by its shiny black abdomen, it is the second largest of its genus. It was described by the German naturalist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann in 1830.

References

* [http://data.gbif.org/species/14748656;jsessionid=34C003053D4CABFCEDFB7E0487919DC5 Occurrence of Blepharotes spendidissimus]