Atomosia puella Wiedemann
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Description
Atomosia puella (Wiedemann)
Laphria puella Wiedemann, 1828: 531.
Recognition characters: Black species; length 5–8 mm; mystax white; thorax black dorsally, thinly covered with vesture of pale silvery setae like setae; scutellum with discal setae like setae similar to those on dorsum of thorax; wings brownish; abdomen shining black, setae brownish yellow; legs largely black or dark brown, femora and tibiae often pale basally or at apex.
Distribution: Recorded from Wyoming by: Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018).
Habitat: Sagebrush steppe and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass, grama-buffalo grass and wheatgrass-needlegrass grassland vegetation types.
Ethology: Nothing known.
Prey: None known.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asilidae
- Genus
- Atomosia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wiedemann
- Species
- puella
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atomosia puella (Wiedemann, 1828) sec. Lavigne & Dennis, 2019
References
- Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1828) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten, als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werkes. 1. in der Schulzischen Buchhandlung, Hamm, XXXII + 608 pp., VI Tafs. [pp. 364 - 536, 568 - 572, 584 - 588, Asilidae] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 14603
- Fisher, E. M. & Wilcox, J. (1997) Catalog of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of the Nearctic Region. California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, 56 pp. [unpublished]
- Geller-Grimm, F. (2018) Robber flies (Asilidae), database, catalog of species. Available from: http: / www. geller-grimm. de / catalog / species. htm (accessed 23 March 2018)