Species Tipulogaster glabrata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Habitat · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora))

Superfamily Asiloidea

Family Asilidae (Robber Flies)

Subfamily Leptogastrinae

Genus Tipulogaster

Species glabrata (Tipulogaster glabrata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tipulogaster glabratus (spelling/gender)

Original combination: Leptogaster badius Loew (MCZ Type Database)

Explanation of Names

Author is Wiedemann, 1828.

Size

length circa 12 mm, wingspan circa 18 mm (guide photo)

Identification

Shaped like other members of this subfamily--delicate with long, attenuated abdomen, slow flight, gleaning insects in the manner of a damselfly. Herschel Raney says of this genus/species:

Note the shellacked look of the thoracic dorsum. None of the other thin Leptogaster creatures has that feature.

See this image:

Habitat

Apparently woodlands.

Food

Like others of this group, glean stationary prey from vegetation. Sometimes take spiders in their webs--see discussion.

Print References

Brimley, p. 335, Leptogaster badius--lists from Raleigh, NC, in May (1)

Internet References

ITIS entry

North Carolina State University--4 pinned, including from that state--only one of genus listed.

MCZ Type Database

Herschel Raney

Works Cited

1.	Insects of North Carolina By C.S. Brimley

Contributed by tom murray on 29 September, 2005 - 7:37pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 6 March, 2008 - 3:32am

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