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Philonicus limpidipennis Hine

Description

Philonicus limpidipennis (Hine)

Asilus limpidipennis Hine, 1909: 167.

Recognition characters: Light gray species; length 15–17 mm; mystax white; thorax gray to grayish brown dorsally with mid-dorsal dark stripe; scutellar bristles 2: wings hyaline; abdomen grayish black to dull black; legs reddish to reddish brown with grayish coxae, tarsal segments darker.

Distribution: PLATTE: Camp Guernsey, WANG, 2001b (CSU, GMAD).

Habitat: Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland 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 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383448

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hine
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Asilidae
Genus
Philonicus
Species
limpidipennis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Philonicus limpidipennis (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