Neoitamus cothurnatus

Neoitamus cothurnatus
Neoitamus cothurnatus Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Asilidae
Genus: Neoitamus
Species:
N. cothurnatus
Binomial name
Neoitamus cothurnatus
(Meigen, 1820)
Synonyms
  • Asilus aestivus Zetterstedt, 1842
  • Asilus nebulosus Matsumura, 1911

Neoitamus cothurnatus, the scarce awl robberfly, is a species of 'robber fly' belonging to the family Asilidae.

Distribution

This species is present in Europe.

Description

Neoitamus cothurnatus can reach a body length of about 12–17 millimetres (0.47–0.67 in).

Identification

It is a small, grey-black asilid (10-15 mm.) Difficult to distinguish from other Neoitamus. Wolff, Gebel and Geller-Grimm (2021), Majer (1997), van den Broek (1979), and Stubbs and Drake (2001) all provide keys, descriptions and illustrations. Older works are also useful, e.g., Seguy (1920), Verrall (1909), and Oldroyd (1969). This species is rather similar to Neoitamus cyanurus. The latter shows more elongate and almost totally black hind basitarsi, that are mostly red in Neiotamus cothurnatus.

Biology

These robberflies fly from end of May to middle of August.

References

  1. ↑ EU-nomen
  2. ↑ Catalogue of life
  3. ↑ William Lundbeck Diptera danica : genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark
  4. ↑ Danny Wolff, Markus Gebel and Fritz Geller-Grimm: The Robber Flies of Germany: Discovering - Observing - Identifying. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-494-01733-4
  5. ↑ Majer, D.M. European Asilidae, in Papp L. & Darvas B. (eds.), Contributions to a manual of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 2, Nematocera and Lower Brachycera. Science Herald, Budapest (Hongrie), 1997, pp.549-567
  6. ↑ van den Broek, R., Schulten, A., Wouwen N. (traducteur), Field Guide to the Robberflies of the Netherlands and Belgium, Éditions Jeugdbondsuitgeverij, 2017, 136 pages, (ISBN 9789051070545)
  7. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Drake, Martin (2001). British Soldierflies and their allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera (Print). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 528 pages. ISBN 1-899935-04-5.
  8. ↑ Seguy, E, 1927 Faune de France Faune n° 17 Diptères Asilidae. 188 p., 389 fig Lechevalier editions (Paris: Éditions Faune de France)
  9. ↑ Verrall, G. H., 1909 Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain British flies Volume 5 London : Gurney and Jackson, 1909.BHL Full text with illustrations
  10. ↑ Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera Brachycera: Tabanoidea and Asiloidea (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/4) Royal Entomological Society, London.
  11. ↑ Flickr
  12. ↑ Waarnemingen