Saropogon geniculatus Loew, 1869
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Saropogon geniculatus Loew, 1869 View in CoL
Figs 3 View FIGURES 1–6 , 27 View FIGURE 27
Saropogon geniculatus Loew, 1869: 92 View in CoL , type locality: Grusien [ Georgia]; Engel 1930: 457; Shtakelberg 1933: 120; Richter 1964: 341 ( Armenia); 1968: 135 (Transcaucasia); 1969: 519 (Transcaucasia); Lehr 1988: 262.
Diagnosis. Body length 10.0–16.0 mm. Mystax white. Ocellar and postocular setae white. Scutum silvery tomentose with short white setae and macrosetae. Scutellum with 2–4 white apical macrosetae. Pleuron silvery tomentose without setae. Wings brownish. Legs reddish yellow with white setae and macrosetae. Femora with black stripe dorsally. Tergites black, with white stripe posteriorly. Hypopygium black with white setae ( Richter 1968).
Specimens examined. No specimens were examined.
Prey. Astata sp., Tachysphex panzeri (both—Hymenoptera, Sphecidae ), Chelonus oculator ( Hymenoptera , Braconidae ), Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) sp. ( Hymenoptera , Chrysididae ) ( Richter 1968).
Distribution. Transcaucasia ( Armenia, Georgia).
Lehr, P. A. (1988) Family Asilidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 5: Athericidae- Asilidae. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 197 - 326.
Loew, H. (1869) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insecten. In: Meigen, V. J. W., Beschreibung europaischer Dipteren. Zweiter Band. Halle, H. W. Schmidt, pp. 1 - 310. [in German]
Richter, V. A. (1964) Zoogeographical characteristics of the robber-flies fauna (Diptera, Asilidae) of the Caucasus. Entomologicheskoye obozrenie, XLIII (2), 335 - 346. [in Russian]
Richter, V. A. (1968) Robber flies (Diptera, Asilidae) of Caucasus. In: Bychovskiy, B. E. (Eds.), Key to the fauna of the USSR published by the Zoological Institute of AS USSR. Vol. 97. Nauka, Leningrad, pp. 1 - 285. [in Russian]
Shtakelberg, A. A. (1933) Key to the Flies of European part of the USSR. AS USSR, Leningrad, pp. 1 - 742.
FIGURE 27. Distribution of Saropogon species in Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia (based on the available material and Abbassian-Lintzen 1964, Richter 1968, Mohammadi et al. 2017).
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