Carinefferia subcuprea (Schaeffer)

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 : 37-38

Carinefferia subcuprea (Schaeffer)

Erax subcuprea Schaeffer, 1916: 66 . Recognition characters: Blackish gray and silver species; length 14–18 mm; mystax black intermixed with white setae; conspicuous mane of black bristles on the centrodorsal line of mesonotum, posterior 1/8th partly composed of white setae; mesonotal bristles black, setae mostly black in males, mostly white in females; meral bristles black with few white setae intermixed; scutellar setae white, dense, marginal bristles black; in males abdominal segments 2 and 3 apically, wholly and 7 basally silvery white pollinose with long white setae on tergites 2–6 parted in middle and directed outward; legs femora black, tibiae and tarsi brown. See C. costalis .

Distribution: ALBANY: Pole Mt., 8 July 1961 ( RJL). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) (Stewart R. Sta., as Nerax subcupreus ); Geller-Grimm (2018).

Habitat: Pine-douglas fir forest vegetation type.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.