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Thereva krafti Holston & Irwin 2005

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia V 8 W 9 W 2 Canada

Description

Thereva krafti Holston & Irwin

Specimens examined (3). BC: Boston Bar; Robson; DEBU, PFC, RBCM.

Database and literature records (27). BC: Lac la Hache; Lytton; Quesnel; Robson; Robson, Waldie Road; Trinity Valley. CNCI, MEI, SEM.

iNaturalist records (1). BC: Windermere Lake Park (iNat 30824488).

Conservation status. BC: S3S5, YT: SNR.

Distributional notes. Thereva krafti is found in scattered localities across the southern interior (Lytton, Trinity Valley) east to the upper Columbia River Valley (Windermere Lake), and north to the Cariboo region (Lac la Hache, Quesnel).

Ecoprovinces and other designations. BC: Southern Interior, Southern Interior Mountains, Central Interior.

Range. Cordilleran. British Columbia, and Alberta south to California and New Mexico (Webb et al. 2013).

Biological notes. Flight period: 20 June–16 August. Holston & Irwin (2005) state that T. krafti usually inhabits forest and steppe, especially in mountains. At Windermere Lake, a female was killed by a Machimus robber fly (iNat 30824488).

Notes

Published as part of Gibson, Joel F. & Cannings, Robert A., 2025, The Stiletto Flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska, pp. 481-508 in Zootaxa 5618 (4) on page 501, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15218826

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F94187BB0435FF84559EFA1BFEED1494

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15218826 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0578FFC30421FF905509FFFDFFF5136C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/FBDA7E17-7857-43FC-A87B-6044C6044860 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/F94187BB0435FF84559EFA1BFEED1494 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/259945197 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/309496/taxon/F94187BB0435FF84559EFA1BFEED1494.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Holston & Irwin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Therevidae
Genus
Thereva
Species
krafti
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Thereva krafti Holston, 2005 sec. Gibson & Cannings, 2025

References

  • Webb, D. W., Gaimari, S. D., Hauser, M., Holston, K. C., Metz, M. A., Irwin, M. E., Kampmeier, G. E. & Algmin, K. (2013) An annotated catalogue of the New World Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea). Zootaxa, 3600 (1), 1-105. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3600.1
  • Holston, K. C. & Irwin, M. E. (2005) Revision of the Nearctic Thereva (Diptera: Asiloidea: Therevidae). Studia dipterologica Supplement, 13, 1-219.