Review of the genus Saropogon Loew, 1847 (Diptera: Asilidae) from Russia Transcaucasia and Central Asia, with description of three new species
Author
Sakhvon, Vital V.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-14
4860
4
577
591
journal article
8230
10.11646/zootaxa.4860.4.7
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1175-5326
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Saropogon geniculatus
Loew, 1869
Figs 3
,
27
Saropogon geniculatus
Loew, 1869: 92
,
type
locality: Grusien [
Georgia
]; Engel 1930: 457;
Shtakelberg 1933: 120
;
Richter 1964: 341
(
Armenia
); 1968: 135 (Transcaucasia); 1969: 519 (Transcaucasia);
Lehr 1988: 262
.
Diagnosis
. Body length 10.0–16.0 mm. Mystax white. Ocellar and postocular setae white. Scutum silvery tomentose with short white setae and macrosetae. Scutellum with 2–4 white apical macrosetae. Pleuron silvery tomentose without setae. Wings brownish. Legs reddish yellow with white setae and macrosetae. Femora with black stripe dorsally. Tergites black, with white stripe posteriorly. Hypopygium black with white setae (
Richter 1968
).
Specimens examined
. No specimens were examined.
Prey
.
Astata
sp.,
Tachysphex panzeri
(both—Hymenoptera,
Sphecidae
),
Chelonus oculator
(
Hymenoptera
,
Braconidae
),
Chrysis
(
Tetrachrysis
)
sp. (
Hymenoptera
,
Chrysididae
) (
Richter 1968
).
Distribution
. Transcaucasia (
Armenia
,
Georgia
).