Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Deromyia neoternata
Size
20-30 mm body length (average 24 mm)
Identification
"A medium-sized brownish species with long legs; the abdomen is strongly constricted between the second and third segments, and the mesonotum has three velvety black stripes that contrast with the light background of the disc" (Artigas, 1966).
Range
Across southern United States: Arizona, east to Florida, north to Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, eastward to Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina.
Habitat
Fields, shrubby thickets, such as bramble patches.
Season
June-August (North Carolina)
Food
Takes many large hymenoptera, also diptera, hemiptera.
Print References
Brimley, p. 336, lists, as
Deromyia neoternata, from eastern North Carolina, June-August
(1).
Artigas, The Genus Diogmites in the Eastern United States. THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 66(4): 401, July, 1966, available
here.
