Cyrtopogon albovarians Curran, 1924

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 : 64

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583815

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scientific name

Cyrtopogon albovarians Curran
status

 

Cyrtopogon albovarians Curran View in CoL

Cyrtopogon albovarians Curran, 1924: 279 View in CoL .

Recognition characters: Black species; length 11–12 mm; third antennal segment black; upper third of mystax white, the remainder black; thorax gray pollinose laterally, gray and brown pollinose dorsally, scutellar setae black; wings with brownish aspect; abdomen black, lateral setae on segments 3 and 4 partly black; legs, femora black, tibiae and tarsi yellow to red.

Distribution: ALBANY: Medicine Bow National Forest, 24 July 1951 ( DJK, JNK-Martin coll.). UINTA: 24 km E of Evanston, 10 June 1952 (RHB-Martin coll.).

Habitat: Pine-douglas fir forest (clearings within the forest where shrubs and grasses are dominant), and sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.

Curran, C. H. (1924) Four apparently undescribed Diptera from Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 56, 250 - 254. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 56250 - 10

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

SubFamily

Brachyrhopalinae

Genus

Cyrtopogon