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Holopogon currani Martin 1959
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Description
Holopogon currani Martin
Holopogon currani Martin, 1959: 17.
Recognition characters: Shining black species; length 7–8 mm; mystax black; thorax gray pollinose laterally, brown pollinose dorsally; scutellar bristles black, scutellar setae lacking; abdomen shining black, lateral setae on abdominal segment 1 white; legs shining black; setae and bristles on femora and tibiae white, on tarsi black.
Distribution: PLATTE: Glendo, 28 July 1961 (RJL); Guernsey, July 1955 (WDF); Guernsey State Park, 15 June 1977, 21 July 1971.
Habitat: Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation type. Protected gully in short grass rangeland; rangeland breaks.
Ethology: Rests on and forages from tips of spikes of cheatgrass, Bromus sp.
Prey: None known.
Notes
Published as part of Lavigne, Robert J. & Dennis, Steve, 2019, Robber flies (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) of Wyoming, USA with keys to genera and species, pp. 1-126 in Zootaxa 4662 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383448
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Holopogon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Martin
- Species
- currani
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Holopogon currani Martin, 1959 sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019
References
- Martin, C. H. (1959) The Holopogon complex of North America, excluding Mexico, with the descriptions of a new genus and a new subgenus (Diptera, Asilidae). American Museum Novitates, 1980, 1 - 40.