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Cyrtopogon infuscatus Cole 1919

Description

Cyrtopogon infuscatus Cole

Cyrtopogon infuscatus Cole, 1919: 233.

Recognition characters: Black to blue-black species; length 8–12 mm; antennae black; mystax largely white in male, entirely black in female; thorax black, thickly gray pollinose, some black pile in front of wings; wings mostly infuscated; scutellum black, posterior margin and the central part of or the entire disc pollinose; abdomen blue-black with white pile, much longer on sides of segments 1–3, sides of first segment and posterior lateral margins of 2–5 white pollinose, 6–7 pollinose except at dorsal triangle; genitalia black, gray pollinose and short black pilose; legs entirely black, femora and tibiae with long white pile and black bristles, short golden pile beneath tarsi, on tips of hind tibiae and on all but base of front tibiae.

Distribution: Recorded from Wyoming by: Cannings (1994); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018).

Habitat: Douglas fir forest and pine-douglas fir forest vegetation types.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.

Notes

Published as part of Lavigne, Robert J. & Dennis, Steve, 2019, Robber flies (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) of Wyoming, USA with keys to genera and species, pp. 1-126 in Zootaxa 4662 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383448

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Asilidae
Genus
Cyrtopogon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Cole
Species
infuscatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cyrtopogon infuscatus Cole, 1919 sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019

References

  • Cole, F. R. & Lovett, A. L. (1919) New Oregon Diptera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 9, pp. 229 - 238 [Asilidae]
  • Cannings, R. A. (1994) Robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) new to Canada, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories: with notes on distribution and habitat. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 91, 19 - 26.
  • Fisher, E. M. & Wilcox, J. (1997) Catalog of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of the Nearctic Region. California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, 56 pp. [unpublished]
  • Geller-Grimm, F. (2018) Robber flies (Asilidae), database, catalog of species. Available from: http: / www. geller-grimm. de / catalog / species. htm (accessed 23 March 2018)