Callinicus pollenius Cole

• Main Authors: Lavigne, Robert J., Dennis, Steve
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Asilidae; Callinicus; Callinicus pollenius; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Canada; British Columbia; Wilcox; Jenny; Jenny Lake
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5584000; https://zenodo.org/record/5584000

Callinicus pollenius (Cole) Chrysoceria pollenia Cole, 1919: 237. Recognition characters: Black and yellow species; length 10–15 mm; mystax golden yellow; thorax golden yellow pollinose laterally, shining black dorsally with golden yellow pollinose pattern; mesonotum central stripes merged together or narrowly divided; scutellar setae and bristles yellow; wings hyaline; abdomen golden yellow pollinose with shining black bands, tarsal segments brownish yellow basally and black apically setae and bristles mixed black and brownish yellow. Distribution: TETON: Inspiration Point (above Jenny Lake), 2,195 m (7,200 ft), Teton Nat’l Park, 19 Aug. 1960 (AE, JGE); Ridge S of Stewart Draw, 2,804 m (9,200 ft), Grand Teton National Park, 7 Aug. 1962 (JGE). Recorded from Wyoming by: Cannings (1994, 2013); Cole (1969) (as Chrysoceria pollenia ); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Martin & Wilcox (1965); Wilcox (1936a). Habitat: Pine-douglas fir forest, and sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types. Lodgepole pine, spruce, fir forest complex. Ethology: Nothing known. Prey: None known. : 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 102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383448 : {"references": ["Cole, F. R. & Lovett, A. L. (1919) New Oregon Diptera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 9, pp. 229 - 238 [Asilidae]", "Cannings, R. A. (1994) Robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) new to Canada, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories: with notes on distribution and habitat. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 91, 19 - 26.", "Cannings, R. A. (2013) A checklist of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of British Columbia. Available from: http: // www. royalbcmuseum. bc. ca / Natural _ History / Insects-and-Relatives. aspx? id = 243 5 (accessed 22 January 2014)", "Cole, F. R. (1969) The flies of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 693 pp. [Asilidae, pp. 184 - 217]", "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]", "Martin, C. H. & Wilcox, J. (1965) Family Asilidae. In: A catalog of Diptera of North America. USDA Agriculture Handbook, No. 276, pp. 360 - 401.", "Wilcox, J. (1936 a.) A new robber fly, with a key to species of Callinicus and Chrysoceria (Diptera: Asilidae). Entomological News, 47, 208 - 210."]}