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Callinicus pollenius Cole

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Callinicus pollenius (Cole)

Chrysoceria pollenia Cole, 1919: 237.

Recognition characters: Black and yellow species; length 10–15 mm; mystax golden yellow; thorax golden yellow pollinose laterally, shining black dorsally with golden yellow pollinose pattern; mesonotum central stripes merged together or narrowly divided; scutellar setae and bristles yellow; wings hyaline; abdomen golden yellow pollinose with shining black bands, tarsal segments brownish yellow basally and black apically setae and bristles mixed black and brownish yellow.

Distribution: TETON: Inspiration Point (above Jenny Lake), 2,195 m (7,200 ft), Teton Nat’l Park, 19 Aug. 1960 (AE, JGE); Ridge S of Stewart Draw, 2,804 m (9,200 ft), Grand Teton National Park, 7 Aug. 1962 (JGE). Recorded from Wyoming by: Cannings (1994, 2013); Cole (1969) (as Chrysoceria pollenia); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Martin & Wilcox (1965); Wilcox (1936a).

Habitat: Pine-douglas fir forest, and sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types. Lodgepole pine, spruce, fir forest complex.

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 102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383448

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7708F17AB847E57963F1FD4A62CAFA77

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3383448 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/8B318902B822E51C6366FF98636CFF5F (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/366A1E81-946C-4ED4-8A65-C51151FE87CC (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/7708F17AB847E57963F1FD4A62CAFA77 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/159348729 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/25823/taxon/7708F17AB847E57963F1FD4A62CAFA77.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Asilidae
Genus
Callinicus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Cole
Species
pollenius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Callinicus pollenius (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.
  • Cannings, R. A. (2013) A checklist of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of British Columbia. Available from: http: // www. royalbcmuseum. bc. ca / Natural _ History / Insects-and-Relatives. aspx? id = 243 5 (accessed 22 January 2014)
  • Cole, F. R. (1969) The flies of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 693 pp. [Asilidae, pp. 184 - 217]
  • 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]
  • Martin, C. H. & Wilcox, J. (1965) Family Asilidae. In: A catalog of Diptera of North America. USDA Agriculture Handbook, No. 276, pp. 360 - 401.
  • Wilcox, J. (1936 a.) A new robber fly, with a key to species of Callinicus and Chrysoceria (Diptera: Asilidae). Entomological News, 47, 208 - 210.