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Dioctria hyalipennis male
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Dioctria hyalipennis male
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Dioctria hyalipennis male
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Dioctria hyalipennis female
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Dioctria hyalipennis · plėšriamusė

Dioctria baumhaueri
stripe-legged robber fly
Gemeine Habichtsfliege
Klarvinget engrovflue
Gewone bladjager
pędźka szklistoskrzydła

It is a Holarctic species. The habitats include meadows, hedgerows, forest and field edges with large shrubs and spruce or cedar trees. Adults feed on mostly small wasps and bees like Lasioglossum and Hylaeus. Also reported feeding on small Diptera and pygmy grasshoppers Tetrigidae. Flies May to July.

A small to medium-sized Dioctria with dark stripes along the top of the orange fore and mid femora. The fore and mid tibiae can be mostly orange or mostly dark. The hind legs are mostly dark (males) or more extensively orange (females). The top of the thorax has longitudinal brownish stripes.