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Holopogon atripennis Back 1909
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Description
Holopogon atripennis Back
Holopogon atripennis Back, 1909: 312.
Recognition characters: Blackish species; length 5–7 mm; mystax white; thorax gray pollinose, pilosity less dense than preceding setae on abdominal segment 1 only; wings brown; legs black, setae and bristles white on femora and tibiae, black on tarsi.
Distribution: PLATTE: 64 km NE of Laramie, 13 July 1937 (RHB-UK): Laramie Peak, Laramie Mtns.; 17 July 1964 (RJL, FRH).
Habitat: Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation type. Local population occurred in stand of mountain mahogany on edge of clearing, on mountainside.
Ethology: Rests on and forages from tips of dead branches of mountain mahogany 0.6– 1 m above the ground.
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 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383448
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Holopogon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Back
- Species
- atripennis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Holopogon atripennis Back, 1909 sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019
References
- Back, E. A. (1909) The robber-flies of America north of Mexico belonging to the subfamilies Leptogastrinae and Dasypogoninae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 35, 137 - 400, 11 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9381