Stichopogon trifasciatus (Say)

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 : 116

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scientific name	Stichopogon trifasciatus (Say)
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Dasypogon trifasciatus Say : 51.

Recognition characters: Gray species; length 9–11 mm; mystax white; thorax gray pollinose, scutellar setae short, white, on margin of scutellum only; scutellar bristles lacking; wings hyaline; abdomen gray pollinose, tergites 1, 4, 8 and 9 silvery gray dorsally producing a striped appearance; legs gray pollinose, setae and bristles white.

Distribution: GOSHEN: Lingle, 14 July 1937 ( CLF-UK). PLATTE: Camp Guernsey, WANG, 2001b ( CSU, GMAD); Dwyer, 3 July 1964 ( RJL), 13 Aug. 1964 ( LJS); Guernsey, 16 July 1964 ( FRH, RJL); Gray Rocks Ranch, Camp Guernsey, WANG, 14 July–5 Aug. 2008 ( CSU, GMAD); Guernsey State Park, 16 July–16 Aug. 1964 ( RJL); Loomis Ranch, Wheatland, 18 July 1963 ( RJL), 5 Aug. 1964 ( FRH, RJL), 28 July 1965 ( FRH), 24 June 1966 ( RJL); 16 km NW of Wheatland, 21 Aug. 1972 ( SD). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) (New Castle); Barnes, (2010b); Dennis et al. (2010); Fisher & Wilcox (1997) (entire United States); Geller-Grimm, (2018); Lavigne & Holland (1969).

Habitat: Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass, grama-buffalo grass, and wheatgrass-needlegrass vegetation types. In dry beds of intermittent streams and on banks of sluggish creeks (see Lavigne & Holland 1969).

Ethology: Rests on and forages from sand or small rocks (see Lavigne & Holland 1969).

Prey: ARANEAE, DIPTERA , HEMIPTERA (Homoptera) , HYMENOPTERA (see Dennis et al. 2010; Lavigne & Holland 1969; Rogers & Lavigne 1972).

References

Adisoemarto, S. (1967) The Asilidae (Diptera) of Alberta. Quaestiones Entomologicae, 3, 3 - 90.

Dennis, D. S., Lavigne, R. J. & Dennis, J. G. (2010) Hemiptera (Heteroptera / Homoptera) as prey of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) with unpublished records. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 12, 27 - 47.

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 [unpublished]

Lavigne, R. J. & Holland, F. R. (1969) Comparative behavior of eleven species of Wyoming robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae). University Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Science Monograph, 18, 1 - 61.

Rogers, L. E. & Lavigne, R. J. (1972) Asilidae of the Pawnee National Grasslands, in northeastern Colorado. University Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Science Monograph 25. University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming, Wyoming, 35 pp.