robber fly

robber fly

n.

Any of various predatory flies of the family Asilidae, characteristically having long, bristly legs.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

robber fly - swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing bee killer dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing Asilidae, family Asilidae - robber flies