Callinicus pollenius Cole
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Description
Callinicus pollenius (Cole)
Chrysoceria pollenia Cole, 1919: 237.
Recognition characters: Black and yellow species; length 10–15 mm; mystax golden yellow; thorax golden yellow pollinose laterally, shining black dorsally with golden yellow pollinose pattern; mesonotum central stripes merged together or narrowly divided; scutellar setae and bristles yellow; wings hyaline; abdomen golden yellow pollinose with shining black bands, tarsal segments brownish yellow basally and black apically setae and bristles mixed black and brownish yellow.
Distribution: TETON: Inspiration Point (above Jenny Lake), 2,195 m (7,200 ft), Teton Nat’l Park, 19 Aug. 1960 (AE, JGE); Ridge S of Stewart Draw, 2,804 m (9,200 ft), Grand Teton National Park, 7 Aug. 1962 (JGE). Recorded from Wyoming by: Cannings (1994, 2013); Cole (1969) (as Chrysoceria pollenia); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Martin & Wilcox (1965); Wilcox (1936a).
Habitat: Pine-douglas fir forest, and sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types. Lodgepole pine, spruce, fir forest complex.
Ethology: Nothing known.
Prey: None known.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Callinicus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cole
- Species
- pollenius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Callinicus pollenius (Cole, 1919) sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019
References
- Cole, F. R. & Lovett, A. L. (1919) New Oregon Diptera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 9, pp. 229 - 238 [Asilidae]
- Cannings, R. A. (1994) Robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) new to Canada, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories: with notes on distribution and habitat. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 91, 19 - 26.
- Cannings, R. A. (2013) A checklist of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of British Columbia. Available from: http: // www. royalbcmuseum. bc. ca / Natural _ History / Insects-and-Relatives. aspx? id = 243 5 (accessed 22 January 2014)
- Cole, F. R. (1969) The flies of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 693 pp. [Asilidae, pp. 184 - 217]
- Fisher, E. M. & Wilcox, J. (1997) Catalog of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of the Nearctic Region. California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, 56 pp. [unpublished]
- Martin, C. H. & Wilcox, J. (1965) Family Asilidae. In: A catalog of Diptera of North America. USDA Agriculture Handbook, No. 276, pp. 360 - 401.
- Wilcox, J. (1936 a.) A new robber fly, with a key to species of Callinicus and Chrysoceria (Diptera: Asilidae). Entomological News, 47, 208 - 210.