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Dicropaltum mesae Tucker 1907

Description

Dicropaltum mesae (Tucker, 1907)

Original Description: Asilus mesae Tucker, 1907.

Published State Records: Adisoemarto (1967) (as Asilus mesae); Cole (1969) (Wyoming; as Asilus mesae); Geller- Grimm (2016) (Wyoming); Martin (1975) (Wyoming).

Published County Records: CB; FR [Dennis & Lavigne (1975) (ethology; as Asilus mesae); Lavigne et al. (1976) [as Asilus mesae; as prey of Pogonioefferia benedicti (as Efferia benedicti)]; PL [Dennis & Lavigne (1975) (as Asilus mesae; as prey of Ospriocerus latipennis and Proctacanthella cacopiloga); Lavigne & Holland (1969) (as Asilus mesae; as prey of Pogonioefferia staminea (as Efferia staminea); includes 32 specimens identified by JKB and one specimen identified by CRN, all as Negasilus mesae]; SH (seven specimens identified by JKB); SW. Museum Records: AL; BH; CB; FR; GO; JO; LA; NA; NI; PA; PL; SH; SW.

Notes

Published as part of Lavigne, Robert J. & Dennis, D. Steve, 2017, A checklist of the Robber Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) of Wyoming, USA, pp. 335-365 in Zootaxa 4238 (3) on page 337, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/345779

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Tucker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Asilidae
Genus
Dicropaltum
Species
mesae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dicropaltum mesae Tucker, 1907 sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2017

References

  • Adisoemarto, S. (1967) The Asilidae (Diptera) of Alberta. Quaestiones Entomologicae, 3, 3 - 90.
  • Cole, F. R. (1969) The flies of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 184 - 217.
  • Geller-Grimm, F. (2016) Robber flies (Asilidae), database, catalog of species. Available from: http: // www. geller-grimm. de (accessed 16 July 2016)
  • Martin, C. H. (1975) The generic and specific characters of four old and six new Asilini genera in the western United States, Mexico and Central America (Diptera: Asilidae). Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 119, 107 pp.
  • Lavigne, R., Rogers, L. & Lavigne, F. (1976) Ethology of Efferia benedicti (Diptera: Asilidae) in Wyoming. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 78, 145 - 153.
  • Lavigne, R. J. & Holland, F. R. (1969) Comparative behavior of eleven species of Wyoming robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae). Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Science Monograph, 18, 61 pp.