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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journal article
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Albibarbefferia albibarbis
(Macquart)
Erax albibarbis
Macquart, 1838: 117
.
Recognition characters:
Grayish to brownish species; length
16–19 mm
; mystax white; mesonotum brown; scutellar setae white, 8 white, marginal bristles; wings hyaline, veins brown; male abdominal segments 1–5 and 8 gray, 6–7 white, 2 with small brown basal spots, 3–5 black basally usually bisected; female sides and posterior margins of abdominal segments grayish white pollinose, 3–7 black dorsally, venter white pollinose; male genitalia black, female ovipositor black brownish or reddish; femora black, tibiae and tarsi yellowish red, tips darker.
Distribution:
Recorded from
Wyoming
(
Table 1
) by:
Cannings (2013)
(entire
United States
);
Fisher & Wilcox (1997)
(entire
United States
; as
Efferia albibarbis
);
Geller-Grimm (2018)
;
Scarbrough
et al.
(2012)
(coast to coast in
United States
, southern
Canada
south to
Venezuela
; as
Efferia albibarbis
).
Habitat:
Sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation
type
.
Ethology:
Nothing known.
Prey:
None known.