Ablautus rufotibialis Back 1909
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Ablautus rufotibialis Back
Ablautus rufotibialis Back, 1909: 182.
Recognition characters: Grayish species; length 10–12 mm; mystax straw white; thorax brown and gray pollinose with straw white to brown bristles; scutellar bristles 24–30, brown; wings hyaline, in certain light milky, veins black with greenish and purplish reflections; legs black, setae and setae numerous and conspicuously white; claws without pulvilli.
Distribution: FREMONT: Shoshoni, 16 km S, 16 April 1965 (RJL). PLATTE: Guernsey, 13–27 April 1964, 30 April 1964, 5 May 1966 (RJL); Wheatland, 30 April 1964, 3 May 1965 (RJL). SWEETWATER: Rock Springs, 26.9 km NE (Thayer Jct.), 1–2 Aug. 1979 (RJL); Point of Rocks, 14.5 km W, 24 July 1979 (RJL). WASHAKIE: Worland, 17 April 1965 (RJL). Recorded from Wyoming by: Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018).
Habitat: Sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation types. Wind-sheltered gullies on open short-mid grass rangeland.
Ethology: Rests on and forages from sand in open areas; courtship (see Lavigne 1972).
Prey: DIPTERA, HEMIPTERA [Heteroptera (as Hemiptera), Homoptera], HYMENOPTERA (see Lavigne 1972; Rogers & Lavigne 1972).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Back
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Ablautus
- Species
- rufotibialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ablautus rufotibialis 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
- 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 [unpublished]
- 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)
- Lavigne, R. J. (1972) Ethology of Ablautus rufotibialis on the Pawnee Grasslands IBP Site. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 45, 271 - 274.
- Rogers, L. E. & Lavigne, R. J. (1972) Asilidae of the Pawnee National Grasslands, in northeastern Colorado. University Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Science Monograph 25. University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming, Wyoming, 35 pp.