Eucyrtopogon nebulo (Osten-Sacken)

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 : 75

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scientific name	Eucyrtopogon nebulo (Osten-Sacken)
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Eucyrtopogon nebulo (Osten-Sacken) View in CoL

Cyrtopogon nebulo Osten-Sacken, 1877: 309 View in CoL .

Recognition characters: Brownish-black to gray species length 8–11.5 mm; mystax black; thorax grayish pollinose with brown stripes, dorsal longitudinal stripe is geminate, blackish brown; wings hyaline on basal 2/5, elsewhere with slight brownish tinge; scutellar setae white, bristles white but appearing brownish; abdomen greenish black, sides of segments 1–6 a posterior sub-oval white spot, vestige of spots on 7; lateral setae brown, basally whitish; legs black, with brownish red setae basally, whitish to yellowish towards apex, bristles yellowish white; tibiae chestnut brown.

Distribution: CARBON: 5 km SW of Hanna, 2 April 1990 (SD); YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: Tow- er Falls, 23 June 1941 ( CPA-UM); Upper Geyser Basin, 29 June 1941 ( CPA-UM). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) (Jackson Lake area); Cannings (2013); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018).

Habitat: Douglas fir forest, and sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation type.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.

References

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

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 [unpublished]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)

Osten-Sacken, C. R. (1877) Art. XIII. - Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and especially from California. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 3, 284 - 311 + 350 - 354. [Asilidae] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 57939