Neoitamus cothurnatus
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| Neoitamus cothurnatus Male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Asilidae |
| Genus: | Neoitamus |
| Species: | N. cothurnatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Neoitamus cothurnatus (Meigen, 1820) | |
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Neoitamus cothurnatus, the scarce awl robberfly, is a species of 'robber fly' belonging to the family Asilidae.[1]
Distribution
This species is present in Europe.[2]
Description
Neoitamus cothurnatus can reach a body length of about 12–17 millimetres (0.47–0.67 in).[3]
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), Stubbs and Drake (2001) all provide keys, descriptions and illustrations. Older works are also useful [4] [5][6] [7] [8] [9] 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.[10]
Biology
These robberflies fly from end of May to middle of August.[11]
References
- ↑ EU-nomen
- ↑ Catalogue of life
- ↑ William Lundbeck Diptera danica : genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark
- ↑ Verrall (1909 )(Oldroyd (1969)<ref>Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera Brachycera: Tabanoidea and Asiloidea (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/4) Royal Entomological Society, London.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Flickr
- ↑ Waarnemingen
External links
Data related to Neoitamus cothurnatus at Wikispecies
Media related to Neoitamus cothurnatus at Wikimedia Commons- Grim Robberflies of Germany
- Images representing Neoitamus cothurnatus