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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Dasypogoninae » Nicocles » Nicocles pictus

Species Nicocles pictus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Nicocles pictus - male Nicocles pictus displaying in flight - Nicocles pictus - male Nicocles pictus - female Nicocles pictus in January - Nicocles pictus - female robber fly at Waubonsie State Park - Nicocles pictus - female Nicocles pictus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Asilidae (Robber Flies)
Subfamily Dasypogoninae
Genus Nicocles
Species pictus (Nicocles pictus)
Explanation of Names
Nicocles pictus (Loew 1866)
Pygostolus pictus Loew, 1866 (original combination)
Size
circa 10-12 mm body length (see remarks)
Range
Eastern United States: MA-FL to WV-AL (DC NY MA RI CT PA NJ DE MD VA WV KY TN AL GA FL SC NC) (1); noted from midwest (Iowa) as well--see this record
Season
late winter-spring (BugGuide records are January-April)
Remarks
Original publication (Loew, 1866; in Latin!) gives size as: Long. corp. 5 1/3 lin., long. al. 5 1/4 lin.
Long. corp. = length of body, long. al. = length wing. The unit is some version of the "line", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(unit), perhaps about 1/10 of an inch, i.e., 2.5 mm (-Patrick Coin, a.k.a. Cotinis, 9/9/20).
Print References
Loew, H. Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift. Volume 10, Issue 1‐3. pages 1-54.
(https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.1866010010, BHL link to p. 17)
Works Cited
1.Information on robber flies, compiled by F. Geller-Grimm
Contributed by Keith Bayless on 4 March, 2008 - 2:34am
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 9 September, 2020 - 9:10pm

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