Neoitamus orphne (Walker)

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 : 52

Neoitamus orphne (Walker)

Asilus orphne Walker, 1849: p. 456 .

Recognition characters: Black species; length 12–19 mm; mystax golden (bright yellow) to pale yellow; thorax black, thinly clothed with gray dust, setae laterally gray, dorsally mostly black; scutellar bristles 4 or more on the margin; wings hyaline, faintly gray at the extreme apex and along the narrow posterior border; abdomen black, narrow margin of each segment above gray, clothed with gray setae that are most abundant towards the base; femora shining black, fore femora yellow at apex, tibiae and metatarsis yellow, black at apex, other tarsal segments largely black.

Distribution: Recorded from Wyoming by Geller-Grimm (2018).

Habitat: Habitat not identified in Wyoming. In Virginia Neoitamus orphne is found on the edge of woodlands ( Bedell 2010). Near the Ontario-Manitoba, Canada border, N. orphne is found in forests or the forest-grassland interface ( Cannings 2014). Skevington (1999) reported one specimen in the Port Frank Forested Dunes in Ontario, Canada.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.