Robber flies (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) of Wyoming, USA with keys to genera and species
Author
Lavigne, Robert J.
Author
Dennis, Steve
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-30
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Promachus albifacies
Williston
Promachus albifacies
Williston, 1885: 63
.
Recognition characters:
Brown and black species; length
19–28 mm
; mystax straw white with at most a few black setae below; thorax brown pollinose; scutellar setae black and white, bristles black; wings nearly hyaline; abdomen black, brown pollinose laterally, patches of white setae laterally; legs largely black occasionally with some red posteriorly.
Distribution:
GOSHEN:
20 July1950
(
REP
). PLATTE: E flank of Laramie Peak, Laramie Mtns.,
17 July 1964
(
FRH
,
RJL
). NATRONA: Alcova,
8 July 1907
(specimen in
CAS
). NIOBRARA:
8 July 1949
(
DGD
). Recorded from
Wyoming
by:
Fisher & Wilcox (1997)
;
Lavigne & Dennis (1994)
.
Habitat:
Pine-douglas fir forest (clearings within the forest where shrubs and grasses are dominant), sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation
types
. At Laramie Peak,
P. albifacies
was found foraging from lodgepole pine and mountain mahogany on the edge of a mountainside clearing; mixed coniferous forest.
Ethology:
Forages from vegetation.
Prey:
All records were taken at Laramie Peak, Platte Co., on
17 July 1964
.
HEMIPTERA (Heteroptera)
,
Reduviidae
:
Rhynocoris ventralis
(Say)
;
LEPIDOPTERA
, Lasciocampidae:
Malacosoma
sp. possibly
californicum fragile
(Strech). [
COLEOPTERA
(see
Lavigne & Dennis 1994
)].