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Eccritosia zamon

  • 1. Entomología y Acarología, Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Campus Montecillo, Carretera México-Texcoco km 36.5, 56230 Montecillo, Estado de México, Mexico

Description

Eccritosia zamon (Townsend, 1895) (Figure 4)

Genus distribution in Mexico. Baja California, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Jalisco, and Oaxaca (Papavero 2009), Colima (Lavigne 1977).

Species distribution in Mexico. Baja California, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Jalisco and Oaxaca (Papavero 2009), Colima (Lavigne 1977).

New records. Morelos * (Alpuyeca) and Nayarit *.

Material examined. MEXICO: Morelos, Alpuyeca, 2/x/1983, A. Ibarra (1♂ CNIN). Nayarit, 9 km E Tuxpan Microondas La Peñita [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 21°56′06″ N, 105°13′23″ W, 140 m, 17/ vii/1995, F.A. Noguera and A. Rodríguez (2♂ EBCC); same data, except: R. Ayala (1♂ EBCC).

Remarks. Two species of Eccritosia have been recorded in Mexico, E. zamon ranges from southern U.S.A. to Costa Rica, and E. barbata (Fabricius) is distributed from the southeastern U.S.A. to Argentina (Papavero 2009). A revision of the genus was made by Lamas (1973).

Notes

Published as part of Estrada, Alejandro & Nápoles, Jesús Romero, 2020, New distribution records of Asilidae (Insecta: Diptera) for Mexico, pp. 1-13 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (783) on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458908

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CNIN , EBCC
Event date
1983-10-02 , 1995-07-17
Family
Asilidae
Genus
Eccritosia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Townsend
Species
zamon
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1983-10-02 , 1995-07-17
Taxonomic concept label
Eccritosia zamon (Townsend, 1895) sec. Estrada & Nápoles, 2020

References

  • Papavero, N. 2009. Catalogue of the Neotropical Diptera: Asilidae. Neotropical Diptera 17: 1 - 178.
  • Lavigne, R. J., 1977. Notes on the ethology of Eccritosia zamon (Diptera: Asilidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 79 (4): 626 - 630.
  • Lamas, M. G. 1973. A revision of Eccritosia Schiner, 1866 (Diptera, Asilidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 27 (4): 45 - 68.