Cyrtopogon inversus Curran, 1923

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 : 69

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scientific name	Cyrtopogon inversus Curran
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Cyrtopogon inversus Curran, 1923: 172 View in CoL .

Recognition characters: Blackish species; length 11–13 mm; third antennal segments black; mystax snowy white above and black below; thorax gray and brown pollinose; wings hyaline, macrotrichia of costal vein black; scutellum shining black with brown pollinose spot basally, scutellar setae black; abdomen shining black with dorsal gray pollinose fasciae entire on segments 2–4; lateral setae in segments 1–4 in male black except for a tuft of white setae on segment 1; in female lateral setae are white; legs, femora black, fore and middle tibiae blackish, hind tibiae reddish brown with white pole posteriorly.

Distribution: ALBANY: Libby Creek, Snowy Range Mtns., 18 June 1961 ( RJL); Pole Mtn., 23 June 1972 (SD). CARBON: Middle of Elk Mtn., 11–27 July 1972 (SD, RJL). NATRONA: Casper Mtn., 18 July 1968 ( RJL). TETON: Jenny Lake, Grand Tetons, 25 June 1938 ( ECVD) (specimen in CAS), 24 July 1953 ( CPA). YELLOW- STONE NATIONAL PARK: 28 June 1912 ( RCO) (specimen in CAS). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) ( YNP); Cole (1969); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018); Martin & Wilcox (1965); Wilcox & Martin (1936) (Yellowstone Park, 28 June 1912, R. C. Osborn).

Habitat: Douglas fir forest and pine-douglas fir forest (both in clearings within the forest where shrubs and grasses are dominant), and sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types. Open clearings in mixed coniferous forests.

Ethology: Rests on and forages from rocks, fallen logs and dead tree stumps in sun.

Prey: COLEOPTERA , Anobiidae : Utobium elegans Horn, Elk Mtn. , 27 July 1972; Scolytidae : Pityogenes sp., Elk Mtn., 11 July 1972; DIPTERA , Chloropidae : Oscinella frit (L.), Elk Mtn., 27 July 1972; Culicidae : Aedes dorsalis (Meigen) , Pole Mtn., Albany Co., 23 June 1972; HEMIPTERA (Homoptera) , Cicadellidae : Aceratagallia uhleri (Van Duzee) , Pole Mtn., Albany Co., 23 June 1972; Balclutha neglecta (DeLong & Davidson) , Elk Mtn., 27 July 1972.

References

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

Cole, F. R. (1969) The flies of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 693 pp. [Asilidae, pp. 184 - 217]

Curran, C. H. (1923) Studies in Canadian Diptera. I. Revision of the asilid genus Cyrtopogon and allied genera. The Canadian Entomologist, 55, 92 - 95 + 116 - 125 + 132 - 14 + 169 - 174 + 185 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 5592 - 4

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)

Martin, C. H. & Wilcox, J. (1965) Family Asilidae. In: A catalog of Diptera of North America. USDA Agriculture Handbook, No. 276, pp. 360 - 401.

Wilcox, J. & Martin, C. H. (1936) A review of the genus Cyrtopogon in North America (Diptera: Asilidae). Entomologica Americana, 16, 1 - 94.