Choerades gilva (Linnaeus), 2003

Lavigne, Robert J. & Dennis, Steve, 2019, Robber flies (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) of Wyoming, USA with keys to genera and species, Zootaxa 4662 (1), pp. 1-126 : 88-89

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scientific name	Choerades gilva (Linnaeus)
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Choerades gilva (Linnaeus)

Asilus gilva Linnaeus, 1758: 605 .

Recognition characters: Black and orange species; length 15–18 mm; mystax black with a few white bristles intermixed; thorax faintly gray pollinose with short black setae dorsally; scutellar setae and bristles black; wings blackish; abdomen black, segments 3–5 with orange pile dorsally, lateral setae of abdominal segment 1 white; legs black, setae white and bristles black.

Distribution: CROOK: Devil’s Tower, 7 July 1946 ( CPA-UM). JOHNSON: Buffalo, 21 Aug 1948 ( REP). Wyoming Territory, No. 205 Hy. Edwards (Henry Edwards, probably 1865–1877) (specimen in CAS). Recorded from Wyoming by: Adisoemarto (1967) (Lander, as Laphria gilva ); Lavigne & Bullington (2001) (Albany County, Snowy Range Mountains, Medicine Bow Range).

Habitat: Sagebrush steppe and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland vegetation types.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.