Lestomyia sabulona (Osten-Sacken)

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 : 83-84

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1
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scientific name	Lestomyia sabulona (Osten-Sacken)
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Lestomyia sabulona (Osten-Sacken) View in CoL

Clavator sabulonum Osten-Sacken, 1877: 292 View in CoL . Recognition characters: Grayish species; length 9–11 mm; mystax white; thorax gray and brown pollinose; scutellar setae lacking; scutellar bristles 6, white; wings hyaline; abdomen gray pollinose, lateral bristles on first abdominal segment white; legs black except for reddish brown ring at apex of femora and base of tibiae on all legs.

Distribution: ALBANY: West Laramie, 20 June 1960 ( RJL). BIG HORN: Greybull, 3 June 1965 ( RJL); Greybull, Metz Smith Farm, 3 June 1965 ( RJL) (specimen in CAS). FREMONT: Lander, WANG, LTA, 20 May 2005 ( CSU, GMAD); Shoshoni, 16 km S, 22 June 1965, 23 June 1965 ( RJL) (specimen in CAS). 1–2 June 1966 ( RJL); 1 July 1965 ( FRH); 5–8 June 1972 ( RJL, SD). NATRONA: Casper Mtn., 18 July 1968 ( RJL). PLATTE: Dwyer, 25 June 1957 ( DRT); Guernsey, 8 June 1961, 3–24 May 1962 ( RJL); Glendo, 26 May 1969 RE/gh study A-Misc. SWEETWATER: Rock Springs, 16 June 1959 ( ADD, WDR). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) (Rawlins); Cannings (1994); Cole (1969); Curran (1942); Dennis & Lavigne (1975) (as Lestomyia sabulonum ; as prey of Stenopogon inquinatus ), (2007) (as Lestomyia sabulonum ).

Habitat: Saltbrush-greasewood shrub, sagebrush steppe shrub and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation types. Open range, short- to mid-grass plains in wind-protected swales; rangeland.

Ethology: Rests on and forages from sand, cactus and grass stalks 5–15 cm above soil.

Prey: DIPTERA , Bombyliidae : Mythicomyia rileyi Coquillet , 16 km S of Shoshoni, July 1965; Milichiidae : Leptometopa halteralis (Coq.) , 16 km S of Shoshoni, 5 June 1972; HEMIPTERA (Homoptera) , Cicadellidae : Aceratagallia uhleri (Van Duzee) , Dwyer, 8 June 1961; Mocuellus sp.; HYMENOPTERA : Chalcidae ; unidentified (two records); Halictidae : Dialictus sp., 16 km S of Shoshoni, 8 June 1972; Pompilidae : Anoplius sp. HYMENOP- TERA (see Dennis & Lavigne 2007).