Neomochtherus auricomus Hine
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Description
Neomochtherus auricomus (Hine)
Asilus auricomus Hine, 1909: 148.
Recognition characters: Yellowish gray species; length 15–18 mm; mystax mostly yellow to golden yellow with a few black bristles above; thorax yellowish gray with prominent mid-dorsal stripe; scutellum with long yellow setae and two yellow marginal bristles; wings hyaline basally, grayish along the inner margin and at the apex; abdomen yellowish gray with yellow setae on each segment and several yellow bristles posteriorly; legs mostly shining yellow, femora with elongate black marking in the middle on the anterior side; tibiae with a black spot apically on the anterior side; tarsi infuscate, in particular apically.
Distribution: CARBON: Kortes Dam, 9 Aug. 1968 (RLB) (specimen in CAS).
Habitat: Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass vegetation type.
Ethology: Nothing known.
Prey: None known.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hine
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Neomochtherus
- Species
- auricomus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neomochtherus auricomus (Hine, 1909) sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019
References
- Hine, J. S. (1909) Robberflies of the genus Asilus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2, 136 - 172. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 2.2.136