Albibarbefferia albibarbis (Macquart)

Lavigne, Robert J. & Dennis, Steve, 2019, Robber flies (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) of Wyoming, USA with keys to genera and species, Zootaxa 4662 (1), pp. 1-126 : 35

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scientific name	Albibarbefferia albibarbis (Macquart)
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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.

References

Cannings, R. A. (2013) A checklist of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of British Columbia. Available from: http: // www. royalbcmuseum. bc. ca / Natural _ History / Insects-and-Relatives. aspx? id = 243 5 (accessed 22 January 2014)

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 [unpublished]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)

Macquart, P. J. M. (1838) Dipteres Exotiques Nouveaux ou peu connus. Memoires de la Societe royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille, 1, 14 - 156. [Asilidae] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 51482

Scarbrough, A. G., Stevens, L. E. & Nelson, C. R. (2012) The albibarbis - complex of Efferia Coquillett, 1910 from the Grand Canyon region, southwestern U. S. A., with three new species and new distribution records (Diptera: Asilidae). The Pan- Pacific Entomologist, 88, 58 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.3956 / 2012 - 07.1