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Saropogon geniculatus Loew 1869

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Saropogon geniculatus Loew, 1869

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Saropogon geniculatus Loew, 1869: 92, type locality: Grusien [Georgia]; Engel 1930: 457; Shtakelberg 1933: 120; Richter 1964: 341 (Armenia); 1968: 135 (Transcaucasia); 1969: 519 (Transcaucasia); Lehr 1988: 262.

Diagnosis. Body length 10.0–16.0 mm. Mystax white. Ocellar and postocular setae white. Scutum silvery tomentose with short white setae and macrosetae. Scutellum with 2–4 white apical macrosetae. Pleuron silvery tomentose without setae. Wings brownish. Legs reddish yellow with white setae and macrosetae. Femora with black stripe dorsally. Tergites black, with white stripe posteriorly. Hypopygium black with white setae (Richter 1968).

Specimens examined. No specimens were examined.

Prey. Astata sp., Tachysphex panzeri (both—Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), Chelonus oculator (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) sp. (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) (Richter 1968).

Distribution. Transcaucasia (Armenia, Georgia).

Notes

Published as part of Sakhvon, Vital V., 2020, Review of the genus Saropogon Loew, 1847 (Diptera: Asilidae) from Russia Transcaucasia and Central Asia, with description of three new species, pp. 577-591 in Zootaxa 4860 (4) on page 579, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4414391

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Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4414393 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4414405 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.4.7 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4414391 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA08D4AFFCFDB73B21445719D789257 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/25557C4D-687B-4B33-BE05-175AA71FA4E5 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/0399F532FFCDDB71B28341BF9F9794E5 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/177324668 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/8230/taxon/0399F532FFCDDB71B28341BF9F9794E5.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Loew
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Asilidae
Genus
Saropogon
Species
geniculatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Saropogon geniculatus Loew, 1869 sec. Sakhvon, 2020

References

  • Loew, H. (1869) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insecten. In: Meigen, V. J. W., Beschreibung europaischer Dipteren. Zweiter Band. Halle, H. W. Schmidt, pp. 1 - 310. [in German]
  • Shtakelberg, A. A. (1933) Key to the Flies of European part of the USSR. AS USSR, Leningrad, pp. 1 - 742.
  • Richter, V. A. (1964) Zoogeographical characteristics of the robber-flies fauna (Diptera, Asilidae) of the Caucasus. Entomologicheskoye obozrenie, XLIII (2), 335 - 346. [in Russian]
  • Lehr, P. A. (1988) Family Asilidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 5: Athericidae- Asilidae. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 197 - 326.
  • Richter, V. A. (1968) Robber flies (Diptera, Asilidae) of Caucasus. In: Bychovskiy, B. E. (Eds.), Key to the fauna of the USSR published by the Zoological Institute of AS USSR. Vol. 97. Nauka, Leningrad, pp. 1 - 285. [in Russian]