Lestomyia sabulona (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 : 83-84

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scientific name	Lestomyia sabulona (Osten-Sacken)
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Lestomyia sabulona (Osten-Sacken) View in CoL

Clavator sabulonum Osten-Sacken, 1877: 292 View in CoL . Recognition characters: Grayish species; length 9–11 mm; mystax white; thorax gray and brown pollinose; scutellar setae lacking; scutellar bristles 6, white; wings hyaline; abdomen gray pollinose, lateral bristles on first abdominal segment white; legs black except for reddish brown ring at apex of femora and base of tibiae on all legs.

Distribution: ALBANY: West Laramie, 20 June 1960 ( RJL). BIG HORN: Greybull, 3 June 1965 ( RJL); Greybull, Metz Smith Farm, 3 June 1965 ( RJL) (specimen in CAS). FREMONT: Lander, WANG, LTA, 20 May 2005 ( CSU, GMAD); Shoshoni, 16 km S, 22 June 1965, 23 June 1965 ( RJL) (specimen in CAS). 1–2 June 1966 ( RJL); 1 July 1965 ( FRH); 5–8 June 1972 ( RJL, SD). NATRONA: Casper Mtn., 18 July 1968 ( RJL). PLATTE: Dwyer, 25 June 1957 ( DRT); Guernsey, 8 June 1961, 3–24 May 1962 ( RJL); Glendo, 26 May 1969 RE/gh study A-Misc. SWEETWATER: Rock Springs, 16 June 1959 ( ADD, WDR). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) (Rawlins); Cannings (1994); Cole (1969); Curran (1942); Dennis & Lavigne (1975) (as Lestomyia sabulonum ; as prey of Stenopogon inquinatus ), (2007) (as Lestomyia sabulonum ).

Habitat: Saltbrush-greasewood shrub, sagebrush steppe shrub and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation types. Open range, short- to mid-grass plains in wind-protected swales; rangeland.

Ethology: Rests on and forages from sand, cactus and grass stalks 5–15 cm above soil.

Prey: DIPTERA , Bombyliidae : Mythicomyia rileyi Coquillet , 16 km S of Shoshoni, July 1965; Milichiidae : Leptometopa halteralis (Coq.) , 16 km S of Shoshoni, 5 June 1972; HEMIPTERA (Homoptera) , Cicadellidae : Aceratagallia uhleri (Van Duzee) , Dwyer, 8 June 1961; Mocuellus sp.; HYMENOPTERA : Chalcidae ; unidentified (two records); Halictidae : Dialictus sp., 16 km S of Shoshoni, 8 June 1972; Pompilidae : Anoplius sp. HYMENOP- TERA (see Dennis & Lavigne 2007).

References

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

Cannings, R. A. (1994) Robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) new to Canada, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories: with notes on distribution and habitat. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 91, 19 - 26.

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

Curran, C. H. (1942) American Diptera. Art. 3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 80, 51 - 84.

Dennis, D. S. & Lavigne, R. J. (2007) Hymenoptera as prey of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) with new prey records. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 9, 23 - 42.

Lavigne, R. J. & Dennis, D. S. (1975) Ethology of Efferia frewingi (Diptera: Asilidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 68, 992 - 996. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 68.6.992

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