Laphystia flavipes Coquillett 1904
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Description
Laphystia flavipes Coquillett
Laphystia flavipes Coquillett, 1904: 180.
Recognition characters: Gray and black species; length 10–12 mm; mystax white; thorax gray and yellow pollinose; scutellar bristles lacking, scutellar setae white, short and recumbent; abdomen black with gray pollinose fasciae entire on all segments; legs in females with basal 2/3, 5/6 and 13/16, respectively, of the fore, middle and hind femora reddish brown.
Distribution: Recorded from Wyoming by: Cole (1969); Geller-Grimm (2018); Wilcox (1960) [1881, Morrison (HKM)].
Habitat: Sagebrush steppe and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland, grama-needlegrasswheatgrass, grama-buffalo grass and wheatgrass-needlegrass grassland vegetation types.
Ethology: Nothing known.
Prey: None known.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Laphystia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Coquillett
- Species
- flavipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Laphystia flavipes Coquillett, 1904 sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019
References
- Coquillett, D. W. (1904) New North American Diptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 6, 177 - 186. [Asilidae]
- Cole, F. R. (1969) The flies of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 693 pp. [Asilidae, pp. 184 - 217]
- Geller-Grimm, F. (2018) Robber flies (Asilidae), database, catalog of species. Available from: http: / www. geller-grimm. de / catalog / species. htm (accessed 23 March 2018)
- Wilcox, J. (1960) Laphystia Loew in North America (Diptera: Asilidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 53, 328 - 346. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 53.3.328