Lasiopogon cinereus Cole 1919

• Main Authors: Lavigne, Robert J., Dennis, Steve
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Asilidae; Lasiopogon; Lasiopogon cinereus; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Canada; Hudson; British Columbia; Thumb; Wilcox
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5584027; https://zenodo.org/record/5584027

Lasiopogon cinereus Cole Lasiopogon cinereus Cole, 1919: 229. Recognition characters: Gray species; length 7–11 mm; mystax black; setae and bristles of mesonotum black, postpronotal setae black, sometimes with a few white setae intermixed; metanotal bristles black; scutellar setae and bristles black; abdominal tergites brown pollinose with gray fasciae confined to apical 1/4; surstyli of male black, gray pollinose; dististyle compact; legs black, gray tomentose (see L. aldrichii ). Wyoming specimens differ from those on hand from Washington in that the setae on the frons of the former are black whereas those of the Washington specimens are brown; the short setae dorsally on the hind femora of males is white in Wyoming, black in Washington, as well as slight variation in the structure of the dististyle. Distribution: BIG HORN: Shell Canyon. FREMONT: Little Popo Agie River, Hudson, 21 Aug. 1964 (RJL, FRH); near Lander, 1,524 –2,438 m (5,000 –8,000 ft) (RM) (OS, CATIC). PARK: Pahaska Tepee, Shoshoni National For., 21 Aug. 1964 (RJL, LJS), 11–13 Aug. 1964 (RJL, FRH); Pahaska Tepee, 12 Aug. 1964 (RJL) (two specimens deposited in the NMSCA); Pahaska Tepee, 13 Aug. 1964 (RJL, FRH), (specimen in USNM); Middle Creek, 8 km N of Pahaska Tepee, 12 Aug. 1964 (RJL, FRH). TETON: Pilgrim Creek, Grand Teton National Park, 14 Aug. 1964 (RJL, FRH), 17 Aug. 1965 (RJL); Teton Overlook, Teton National For., 14 Aug. 1964 (RJL, FRH); Jackson, 14 Aug. 1964 (RJL, FRH). YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: Thumb Station, Aug. 1931 (Cole & Wilcox 1938) (VMT - BYU). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) (near Lander; Thumb Station, YNP); Cannings (1994), (2002) (Grand Teton National, Park), (2013); Cole (1969); Cole & Wilcox (1938); Evans (1970); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018); Lavigne & Holland (1969); Martin & Wilcox (1965). Habitat: Douglas fir forest, saltbrush-greasewood shrub, and sagebrush steppe and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types. Rocky substrate adjoining moderately flowing streams (see Lavigne & Holland 1969). Ethology: Rests on and forages from exposed rocks in streams and from soil, rocks and logs on the banks of streams (see Lavigne & Holland 1969). Prey: DIPTERA, EPHEMEROPTERA, TRICHOPTERA (see Lavigne & Holland 1969). : 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 pages 113-114, 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]", "Cole, F. R. & Wilcox, J. (1938) The genera Lasiopogon Loew and Alexiopogon Curran in North America (Diptera-Asilidae). Entomologica Americana, 43, 1 - 90.", "Adisoemarto, S. (1967) The Asilidae (Diptera) of Alberta. Quaestiones Entomologicae, 3, 3 - 90.", "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.", "Cole, F. R. (1969) The flies of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 693 pp. [Asilidae, pp. 184 - 217]", "Evans, H. E. (1970) Ecological-behavioral studies of the wasps of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 140, 451 - 511.", "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)", "Lavigne, R. J. & Holland, F. R. (1969) Comparative behavior of eleven species of Wyoming robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae). University Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Science Monograph, 18, 1 - 61.", "Martin, C. H. & Wilcox, J. (1965) Family Asilidae. In: A catalog of Diptera of North America. USDA Agriculture Handbook, No. 276, pp. 360 - 401."]}