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.