Saropogon laparoides Bromley, 1951

Alberts, Charlotte H. E. & Fisher, Eric M., 2022, A new species of Saropogon Loew, 1847 (Diptera, Asilidae) from Arizona, with a review of the Nearctic species north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1130, pp. 1-63 : 1

Saropogon laparoides Bromley, 1951

Figs 16 , 26 , 32

Saropogon laparoides Bromley, 1951: 14.

References.

Martin and Wilcox 1965: 383 (catalog); Wilcox 1966 (junior synonym S. sculleni is described and keyed); Fisher and Wilcox 1997: 4 (catalog).

Diagnosis.

A small, dark species with hyaline wings and white coxal bristles. Females with mostly reddish legs with the tips of the tibiae and tarsi blackish and scutum with gray pubescence; Male femora mostly reddish, prothoracic and mesothoracic femora black dorsally, tibiae and tarsi blackish and mesonotum with yellowish gray pubescence. Male terminalia with many black setae. Body length 12-16 mm; wing length 8-9 mm. Flight time July - August.

Distribution.

USA: Texas, SimpleMappr: https://www.simplemappr.net/map/16987.

Type material examined.

United States of America • 1 ♀, holotype; Texas, Presidio County, Presidio; 29°33'N, 104°22'W; 787 m; 04 Aug. 1929; AMNH • 1 ♀, paratype; Texas, Presidio County, Chinati Mtns; 29°54'N, 104°27'W; 1924 m; 04 Aug. 1924; E. R. Tinkham; USNM; USNMENT01819182

Other material examined.

Suppl. material 1.

Comments.

According to Bromley (1951), this species resembles an African Dasypogoninae genus, Meolapharus [sic] (= Neolaparus , junior synonym of the widespread genus Pegesimallus (Londt, 1980)).

Figures

Figure 16. Saropogon laparoides Bromley, 1951 Female (USNMENT 01819592): A dorsal view B lateral view C anterior view; Male (USNMENT 01819567): D anterior view E dorsal view F lateral view. Scale bars: 2 mm.

Figure 26. Focused map of the Arizona distribution of Nearctic Saropogon (Diptera: Asilidae). Map created with SimpleMappr on January 25, 2022, and available at: https: // www. simplemappr. net / map / 17143.

Figure 32. Distribution of Saropogon (Diptera: Asilidae) specimens studied for S. albifrons, S. coquillettii, S. dispar, S. hyalinus, and S. laparoides. Map created with SimpleMappr on July 25, 2022, and available at: https: // www. simplemappr. net / map / 18317.