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Neomochtherus lepidus Hine
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Description
Neomochtherus lepidus (Hine)
Asilus lepidus Hine, 1909: 150.
Recognition characters: Grayish black species; 12–14 mm; mystax white, few black setae above; thorax gray pollinose, setae short and black; scutellar bristles 2, black; wings in female hyaline, in male, infuscated, especially posterior half; abdomen black, each segment with a prominent gray border preceded by a row of bristles which nearly reaches over dorsum; legs yellowish brown, setae and bristles white, tibiae dark reddish.
Distribution: BIG HORN: Shell, 25 Aug, 1955 (WDF).
Habitat: Saltbrush-greasewood shrub vegetation type.
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 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383448
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Neomochtherus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hine
- Species
- lepidus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neomochtherus lepidus (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