Saropogon platynotus Transcaucasia
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Description
Saropogon platynotus (Loew, 1847)
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Saropogon platynotus (Loew, 1847): 443, type locality: Makri und Patara [Turkey], Engel 1930: 464; Richter 1964: 341 (Transcaucasia); 1968: 137 (Armenia, Azerbaijan); 1969: 519; Lehr 1988: 264; Ghahari et al. 2007: 4; Mohammadi et al. 2017: 252; Fidalgo & van den Broek 2019: 9.
Diagnosis. Body length 9.0–15.0 mm. Mystax white. Palpus with black setae. Postocular macrosetae yellowish. Lower occipital setae black. Scape and pedicel reddish yellow, postpedicel black, reddish yellow at base. Scutum with yellow setae; macrosetae yellow, black or mixed. Scutellum with 6 black apical macrosetae. Anepisternum silvery tomentose dorsally. Wings clear in male. Legs with short black and yellow setae, macrosetae mainly black, some of them yellow. Fore, mid and hind femora black, reddish at apex, fore and mid tibiae reddish yellow; fore and mid tarsi reddish brown, hind tibia and tarsus black in male. Tergites shiny black with black and yellow setae. Hypopygium black with black setae and macrosetae.
Specimens examined. No specimens were examined.
Prey. Andrena sp. (2), Halictus sp. (2) (both—Hymenoptera, Apidae) (Richter 1968), Ectemnius continuus, Philanthus triangulum (both—Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) (Ghahari et al. 2007).
Distribution. Transcaucasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan), Turkey,? Croatia,? Spain, Iran,? Tunisia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Saropogon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Transcaucasia
- Species
- platynotus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Saropogon platynotus (Loew, 1847) sec. Sakhvon, 2020
References
- Loew, H. (1847) Uber die europaischen Raubfliegen (Diptera, Asilica). Linnaea Entomologica, 2, 384 - 568. [in German] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11475
- 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.
- Ghahari, H., Lehr, P. A., Lavigne, R. J., Hayat, R. & Ostovan, H. (2007) New records of robber flies (Diptera, Asilidae) for the Iranian fauna with their prey records. Far Eastern Entomologist, 179, 1 - 9.
- Mohammadi, R., Khaghaninia, S. & Astakhov, D. (2017) Study of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) in East and West Azerbaijan provinces of Iran, with two new species records for the country. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 3 (3), 247 - 255.
- Fidalgo, A. & van den Broek, R. (2019) Checklist de Fauna Iberica. Familia Asilidae (Arthropoda: Insecta: Diptera) en la peninsula iberica e islas Baleares (edicion 2019). In: Ramos, M. A. & Sanchez Ruiz, M. (Eds.), Documentos Fauna Iberica. Vol. 9. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, pp. 2 - 16.
- 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]