Machimus arthriticus is a Palearctic species of robber fly in the family Asilidae.
The body length to 19 mm. It is grey-dusted robberfly resembling a small Machimus rusticus or Eutolmus rufibarbisM. arthriticus has the tibiae more extensively yellowish than those two species.
References
↑Seguy, E, 1927 Faune de France Faune n° 17 Diptères Asilidae. 188 p., 389 fig Lechevalier editions (Paris: Éditions Faune de France)
↑Verrall, G. H., 1909 Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain British flies Volume 5 London: Gurney and Jackson, 1909.BHL Full text with illustrations
↑Majer,D.M. European Asilidae, in Papp L. & Darvas B. (eds.), Contributions to a manual of Palaearctic Diptera, volume 2 Nematocera and Lower Brachycera. Science Herald, Budapest (Hongrie), 1997, pp.549-567
↑ van den Broek, R., Schulten, A., Wouwen N.(traducteur), Field Guide to the Robberflies of the Netherlands and Belgium, Éditions Jeugdbondsuitgeverij, 2017, 136 pages, (ISBN 9789051070545)
↑Danny Wolff, Markus Gebel and Fritz Geller-Grimm: The Robber Flies of Germany: Discovering - Observing - Identifying . Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-494-01733-4