Machimus sadyates Walker
Creators
Description
Machimus sadyates (Walker)
Asilus sadyates Walker, 1849: 453.
Recognition characters: Blackish species; 13–17 mm; mystax with numerous black bristles above and few white or pale yellowish ones below; thorax thinly clothed with gray dust that has a yellowish tinge above with a black middorsal stripe; wings hyaline with clouded apex and posterior border; abdomen black with white posterior border on each segment; femora black, tibiae reddish but usually with black markings on the outside; metatarsus reddish with brown apex, other tarsal segments either black or brown, reddish at the base.
Distribution: ALBANY: Pole Mtn., July 1969 (RJL). FREMONT: near Lander, 1,524 –2,438 m (5,000 –8,000 ft), Aug. (RM-UK).
Habitat: Sagebrush steppe and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland vegetation type.
Ethology: Nothing known.
Prey: None known.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Machimus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- sadyates
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Machimus sadyates (Walker, 1849) sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019
References
- Walker, F. (1849) List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 2. Edward Newman, London, 186 pp. [pp. 299 - 484, Asilidae]