Vermipardus comstocki, Wheeler, 1918

Bueno, Gabriel M., Kehlmaier, Christian & Santos, Charles Morphy D., 2021, A worldwide catalog of the Vermileonidae (Diptera: Brachycera), Zootaxa 5060 (4), pp. 489-514 : 500

comstocki Wheeler, 1918

Holotype: Male , Alta Meadow, California, USA ( MCZC).

Dist.: USA: known to occur in California from Alta Meadow [36°34’41.8”N 118°39’17.4”W], Sierra Nevada {38°16’N 119°34’W }, Pinnacles National monument {36°29’N 121°10’W }, Sentinel Dome [37°43’23.2”N 119°35’02.4”W] and Yosemite Creek [37°49’34.7”N 119°35’27.6”W], this species was also reported from Idaho [45°13’17.5”N 116°17’52.2”W] .

Refs.: Wheeler, 1918: 84 (des.); Greene, 1926: 12 (larv. and pupae des.); Leonard, 1930: 71–72 (redes.); Wheeler, 1930: 167–175 (dist.), 168, 177, 179, 184, 186–167, 191–192, 196, 198, 200, 202, 213, 231 (figs.), 176–184, 195–207 (larv. desc.), 186–188 (pupae des.), 212–240 (larv. biol.); DeLeon, 1938: 167 (dist.); Pechuman, 1938: 87 (key); James, 1965: 342 (cat.); Teskey, 1981: 529, 531 (figs.); Nagatomi et al., 1999: 18 (key), 21 (cat.), Wang et al., 2021: 10, 12 (phyl.); Kehlmaier, 2021: 342 (phyl., dist.).