Laphystia canadensis Curran, 1927
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4662.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583953 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7708F17A-B87F-E541-63F1-FE8762CAFC73 |
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Plazi |
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Laphystia canadensis Curran |
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Laphystia canadensis Curran View in CoL
Laphystia canadensis Curran, 1927: 87 View in CoL .
Recognition characters: Grayish species; length 10–12 mm; mystax snowy white; thorax gray pollinose with some brown dorsally; scutellar setae white; wings cinereous hyaline; abdomen black dorsally, gray pollinose laterally stretching onto dorsum at posterior margins, lateral setae on abdominal segment 1 white; legs, fore and middle femora gray pollinose, hind femora basal 1/4 orange to reddish and gray pollinose apically, tibiae orange basally and black apically, setae and bristles of legs white.
Distribution: Recorded from Wyoming by: Cole (1969); Fisher & Wilcox (1997); Geller-Grimm (2018); Martin & Wilcox (1965); Wilcox (1960) [1881, Morrison ( HKM)].
Habitat: Sagebrush steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass and wheatgrass-needlegrass grassland vegetation types.
Ethology: Nothing known.
Prey: None known.
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