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Neomochtherus montanus Hine
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Description
Neomochtherus montanus (Hine)
Asilus montanus Hine, 1909: 149.
Recognition characters: gray species; length 13 mm; mystax with few bristly, mostly white setae and a few black ones above; thorax gray with mid-dorsal black stripe divided more anteriorly; scutellum with two black marginal bristles; wings clear hyaline; abdomen with grayish dust, most prominent on the posterior margins of the segments that are preceded by 2–3 small bristles; legs mostly reddish, anterior side of femora, apex of tibiae and tarsi fuscous.
Distribution: JOHNSON: S Fork of Crazy Woman Creek, 27 July 1964 (HBL) (specimen in CAS).
Habitat: Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass 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
- Scientific name authorship
- Hine
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Neomochtherus
- Species
- montanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neomochtherus montanus (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