-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Flies Order (Diptera)

-Brachyceran Flies (Suborder Brachycera)​

-Orthorrhaphan Flies (Infraorder Orthorrhapha)

-Superfamily Asiloidea

-Robber Flies (Family Asilidae)​

-Subfamily Dasypogoninae

-Tribe Lastaurini

-Hanging-Thieves (Genus Diogmites)

-Diogmites sallei

Diogmites is a genus of mainly neotropical flies in the family Asilidae or robber flies. They are are predators, often hanging by one or two legs while they consume their prey. Like other robber flies, they possess large compound eyes, a stiff piercing proboscis, and a bristly “mystax” that protects the face during prey capture. After capturing prey in midair—usually other flying insects such as flies, bees, or small wasps—they return to a perch and hang beneath it, holding the prey with their other legs while inserting their proboscis to inject digestive enzymes and consume the liquefied tissues.