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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Dasypogoninae » Omninablautus » Omninablautus arenosus
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Omninablautus arenosus - female
Copyright © 2016 beetledude63

Omninablautus arenosus - Female
near Kenna, Roosevelt County, New Mexico, USA
September 5, 2016
Size: ca. 5 mm
these little robbers were seen on open, sandy-ish substrate with scattered vegetation. They were in the same habitat as Hodophylax aridus (which outnumbered the Omninablautus by about 3:1, at least the ones I noticed!). Pritchard's original description also mentioned the relative close proximity of these two species at the type locality (Artesia, NM) back in 1934.
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Contributed by beetledude63 on 5 September, 2016 - 7:12pm
Last updated 6 September, 2016 - 5:17pm

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 September, 2016 - 5:17pm login or register to post comments

Thanks
Eric...very nice to be able to add to the coverage of the family on BG...can a new genus/species page be created?
… beetledude63, 6 September, 2016 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

Congratulations beetledude63!
Omninablautus is a new genus for BG (in the Dasypogoninae), and arenosus a n. sp.! In general, Omninablautus spp. look just like Ablautus spp. but are active in the fall season (like Hodophylax); Ablautus spp. are mainly active in the spring months.
… Eric Fisher, 6 September, 2016 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 September, 2016 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

characteristic spine
The "long and crooked" (as Pritchard called it) protibial spur is visible on the left fore leg, albeit a bit out of focus...
… beetledude63, 5 September, 2016 - 7:13pm login or register to post comments

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