Taxonomic review of the species of Andrenosoma (Diptera: Asilidae) in Spain and description of a new species
Author
García, Marta
Author
Pérez, Guillermo
Author
Portillo, Manuel
text
Zootaxa
2017
4299
3
423
431
journal article
32595
10.11646/zootaxa.4299.3.8
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Andrenosoma atrum
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
Andrenosoma atrum
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
: 605.
Asilus atrum
Linnaeus, 1758
: 605
.
Erax prostratum
Scopoli, 1763
: 359
.
Laphria violacea
Meigen, 1804
: 262
(misidentification).
Diagnosis
. Male and female with fully black bluish shiny body, very smoky wings and black mystax.
Description
. Medium sized species (15 ̶
20 mm
), black bluish color and black short setosity on thorax and abdomen.
Head
. Face and facial gibbosity with black and white setae in female and only black in male; beard white. Antennae with black and white setae; third antennal segment at least longer than first two segments and with pruinosity.
Thorax
without tomentum, with long black and white setae laterally and posteriorly; black scutellar setae.
Wings
very smoked and with first posterior cell closed and stalked (
Fig. 2
a).
Legs
black with abundant black and white setae; tibia and tarsus robust.
Abdomen
. Black bluish with black setae.
Male terminalia
with yellow setae and a very developed gonostylus (
Fig. 2
b) with short apical tip and longer superior one, sometimes two.
Female terminalia
long, tubular and with black and white setae.
Biology and ecology
. Flight period June to October. They are commonly perched on stumps in the forest edge and forest clearings, mainly of conifer woods, located between
900m
and
1500m
above sea level. They feed basically on hymenopterans and other dipterans (
Broek & Schulten, 2013
;
Musso, 1970
).
Specimens
examined
.
SPAIN
.
Province of Ávila
:
Castañar
del
Tiemblo
(
El Tiemblo
), (
40° 21' N
,
4° 30' W
),
900 m
,
20/09/2007
,
G. Pérez Andueza
,
1♂
;
El Regajal
(
El Tiemblo
), (
40° 21' N
,
4° 31' W
),
1100 m
,
19/10/2008
,
G. Pérez Andueza
,
1♀
;
La Barranca
(
El Tiemblo
), (
40° 21' N
,
4° 31' W
),
1100 m
,
19/09/2008
,
G. Pérez Andueza
,
2♂
and
1♀
;
Navarredonda de Gredos
, (
40° 20' N
,
5° 09' W
),
1400 m
,
05/10/2007
,
G. Pérez Andueza
,
1♂
;
Puerto de Casillas
(
Casillas
), (
40° 20' N
,
4° 34' W
),
1450 m
,
19/10/2007
,
G. Pérez Andueza
,
1♂
and
1♀
;
Puerto de Casillas
(
Casillas
), (
40° 20' N
,
4° 34' W
),
1450 m
,
19/09/2008
,
G. Pérez Andueza
,
1♂
;
Puerto de Casillas
(
Casillas
), (
40° 20' N
,
4° 34' W
),
1450 m
,
10/10/2008
,
G. Pérez Andueza
,
1♂
;
San Juan de la Nava
, (
40° 28' N
,
4° 41' W
),
1115 m
,
16/ 09/1989
,
J.J. Pedrero
,
1♀
.
Province of Barcelona
:
Vallvidrera
, (
41° 25' N
,
2° 05' W
),
362 m
, 09/1892,
E. Gobert
,
1♀
.
Province of Ciudad Real
:
Lagunillas
N- 530 (a
10 km
de
Luciana
), (
39° 01' N
,
4° 24' W
),
700 m
,
25/09/1997
,
M. Portillo
,
1♂
and
1♀
.
Province of Huesca
:
Jaca
, (
42° 35' N
,
0° 32' W
),
818 m
, 07/1913,
J. Arias
,
1♂
and
1♀
.
PROVINCE OF SALAMANCA:
Nava de
Francia
, (
40° 32' N
,
6° 07' W
),
1041 m
,
20/10/1996
,
M. Portillo
,
1♂
.
Province of Soria
:
Vinuesa
, (
41° 54' N
,
2° 46' W
),
1105 m
,
18/09/1997
,
M. Portillo
,
5♂
.
Province of Valladolid
:
San Miguel
del
Arroyo
, (
41° 26' N
,
4° 27' W
),
814 m
,
24/09/1988
,
S. Fdez. Gayubo
,
1♀
.
Distribution.
Paleartic Region:
Austria
,
Bosnia
,
Bulgaria
,
Croatia
,
Czech Republic
,
Denmark
,
France
,
Germany
,
Greece
,
Italy
,
Poland
,
Romania
,
Russia
,
Slovakia
,
Spain
,
Sweden
,
Switzerland
,
Serbia
,
Canary Islands
and
Algeria
. In
Spain
had been cited by
Lehr (1988)
(without specifying location), by
Czerny & Strobl (1909)
in El Escorial (Province of
Madrid
), by Arias (1912) in
Madrid
, Mallorca and by
Pérez Andueza & Portillo (1991)
in San Juan de la Nava (Province of Ávila).