Laphria sackeni Banks
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Laphria sackeni Banks
Dasyllis sackeni Banks, 1917: 54.
Recognition characters: Golden orange species; length 16–22 mm; mystax orange except for a few black setae on side below; thorax orange pilose except mesonotum which is largely short black pilosity; scutellar setae and bristles orange; wings brownish; abdomen brownish, orange pilose; legs black, pile of femora and tibiae black and orange and of tarsi black, bristles black.
Distribution: Recorded from Yellowstone National Park, 26 June 1907 (WR) by McAtee (1918) under the name L. vultur O. S. Wilcox (1936c) states, “This is the species (sackeni) referred to as vultur by McAtee, Mr. Greene having compared specimens with McAtee’s material in the U. S. National Museum.”
Habitat: Douglas fir forest, sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types.
Ethology: Nothing known.
Prey: COLEOPTERA, Scarabaeidae: Yellowstone National Park, 26 June 1907 (WR).
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- Banks, N. (1917) Synopsis of the genus Dasyllis (Asilidae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 12, 52 - 55.
- McAtee, W. L. (1918) Key to the Nearctic species of the genus Laphria (Diptera, Asilidae). Ohio Journal of Science, 19, 143 - 170.
- Wilcox, J. (1936 c) Laphria vultur Osten-Sacken and two related species (Diptera - Asilidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 68, 7 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 687 - 1