Carinefferia jubata (Williston)

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 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583712
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scientific name	Carinefferia jubata (Williston)
status

Treatment

Erax jubatus Williston, 1885: 66 View in CoL .

Recognition characters: Brownish species: length 18–23 mm; mystax, black and white bristles intermixed; thorax compressed laterally, brownish gray pollinose with blackish stripe dorsally delimiting mane of black setae; marginal scutellar bristles 10 black; scutellar setae white or black; abdomen largely black, narrow posterior margins of abdominal tergites gray pollinose; in males, abdominal segments 6 and 7 silvery white pollinose; legs, femora black, tibiae and tarsi reddish brown.

Distribution: CARBON: Baggs, Savery, 2 Sept. 1959 ( DGR, WDG). TETON: Grand Teton National Park, 18 Aug. 1931 ( LDA, JON), 18 Aug. 1931 ( JON) (female specimen in CAS). Recorded from Wyoming by: Fisher & Wilcox (1997) (as Efferia jubata ); Geller-Grimm (2018); Hine (1919) (as Erax jubatus ); Wilcox (1966b) (as Efferia jubata ).

Habitat: Sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland, grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass, and grama-buffalo grass grassland vegetation types.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.

References

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 [unpublished]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)

Hine, J. S. (1919) Robberflies of the genus Erax. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 12, 103 - 157. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 12.2.103

Wilcox, J. (1966 b) Efferia Coquillett in America north of Mexico. (Diptera: Asilidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 34, 85 - 234.