Lasiopogon lavignei Cannings, 2002

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Lasiopogon lavignei Cannings

Lasiopogon lavignei Cannings, 2002: 144 .

Recognition characters: Large gray species with only faint gray-gold tomentum laterally and light brown patches of tomentum basally on dorsum of abdominal segments; length 10–12 mm; mystax black or brown, with a few white setae below; thoracic bristles and setae mostly brown or black, dorsocentrals rather weak and sometimes hardly represented anteriorly, prominent posteriorly; scutellar tomentum gray, with some faint brown-gold highlights, apical setae black, 2–4 on each side, angles laterally, no discal setae, but some brown setae and weak setae mixed with primary setae on margin; abdominal tergites with lateral margin and apical band of gray tomentum, often extending weakly basally along midline; surstyli of male dark chestnut with dark brown setae; dististyle compact; tarsi and sometimes tibiae light brown, contrasting with dark brown femora and sometimes tibiae.

Distribution: WASHAKIE: 13.5 km E of Tensleep, Leigh Creek Camp Ground (holotype and three paratypes), 10 June 1980 (one holotype and two other specimens are deposited in USNM). Recorded from Wyoming by Cannings (2002).

Habitat: Pine-douglas fir forest vegetation type. Mountain forests near streams.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: DIPTERA : Cecidomyiidae (see Cannings 2002).