Bohartia martini Adisoemarto & Wood, 1975

Lavigne, Robert J. & Dennis, Steve, 2019, Robber flies (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) of Wyoming, USA with keys to genera and species, Zootaxa 4662 (1), pp. 1-126 : 85-86

Bohartia martini Adisoemarto & Wood

Bohartia martini Adisoemarto & Wood, 1975: 531 .

Recognition characters: Blackish species; length 6–8 mm; mystax mostly white; second antennal segment usually with some reddish or brown bristles; thorax white to slightly yellowish and silvery-gray pollinose; scutellar bristles black; wings hyaline with dark brown veins; abdomen reddish brown to black; legs, femora black, tibiae reddish at least at base dorsally, front tibiae with fringe-like setae on posterior surface; male hypandrium bulging ventrally near base.

Distribution: SUBLETTE: 1 male, Mesa Conservation Area, S of Pinedale, 17–18 July 1968 ( RJL). SWEET- WATER: Tipton Junction, 5 km N, 27 June–9 July 1978 ( RJL, SWB). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto & Wood (1975); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018); Lavigne & Bullington (2005).

Habitat: Sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland vegetation type.

Ethology: Forage from ground, and twigs and plant debris on the ground, and from grass stems and dead twigs of Artemisia sp. (see Lavigne & Bullington 2005).

Prey: COLEOPTERA , HEMIPTERA (Homoptera) (see Lavigne & Bullington 2005).