Leptogastrinae

Found a robberfly that look like a stick. At first glance, i totally missed it. Luckily my friend has better eyes than me

The Robber Flies (Family: Asilidae) are represented by ten subfamilies on Crowley's Ridge. I mean to take them up in phylogenetic order, beginning with the most "primitive," meaning the least changed from the original robber fly stock. These, the Leptogastrinae (meaning "slender abdomens") are quite unlike the more "modern" robbers. Robber Fly species go from about 5 mm long to about 50 mm. This particular group is on the small side of the scale, 7-15 mm long and extremely slight, so that they are about like mosquitoes in bulk. Their head and thorax are crammed up to one end, with enormously long hind legs that dangle down in flight, perhaps to mimic small wasps, and probably to serve as a counter balance to the long slender abdomen that takes up most of their length. It took Cheryl and me about three years to even learn how to see these thread-like things, flying slowly and persistently deep down in the shadows and twigs of brushy thickets. But once you learn to recognize the slow deliberate flight, and the special way they land, head against a bare twig, body often at right angles, to look like another twig coming off the main twig, then you have a search image, and it is possible to begin finding them.

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