Dioctria rufipes, the common red-legged robberfly, is a species of robber fly in the subfamily Dasypogoninae of the family Asilidae.

This species can be found in most of Europe (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, the Netherlands, the former Yugoslavia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, Great Britain and Italy), in the Near East, and in the eastern Palearctic realm.

[2] This species mainly inhabit scrubby grassland, well wooded areas, woodland edge and hedgerows.

[5][6] These medium-large robber flies have a black head and hard piercing mouthparts.

The mesothorax is black, lightly pubescent, with inconspicuous longitudinal stripes.