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Comantella Curran, 1923
[Dasypogoninae: Isopogonini]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
  typ.loc.        

Description: Curran, C.H. (1923): Studies in Canadian Diptera. I. Revision of the asilid genus Cyrtopogon and allied genera. - The Canadian Entomologist 55: 92-95, 116-125, 132-142, 169-174, 185-190 [93]; Ottawa.
Type species: Cyrtopogon maculosus Coquillett, 1904: 184
Literature: Curran, C.H. (1923): Studies in Canadian Diptera. I. Revision of the asilid genus Cyrtopogon and allied genera. - The Canadian Entomologist 55: 92-95, 116-125, 132-142, 169-174, 185-190; Ottawa [key]. Curran, C.H. (1926): A new species of Comantella (Asilidae, Diptera). - The Canadian Entomologist 58: 310-312; Ottawa [key]. James, M.T. (1937): The genus Comantella Curran (Diptera, Asilidae). - Pan-Pacific Entomologist 13: 61-63; San Francisco [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Comantella cristata (Coquillett, 1893)
  2. Comantella fallei (Back, 1909)
  3. Comantella pacifica Curran, 1926
  4. Comantella rotgeri James, 1937

Comantella rotgeri James, 1937

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
head dorsal   head lateral
head lateral   antenna
postpedicel   scutum lateral
wing   wing
tarsi ventral

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view

Key to the species

Founded on: James, M.T. (1937): The genus Comantella Curran (Diptera, Asilidae). - Pan-Pacific Entomologist 13: 61-63; San Francisco. [amended]

1 Style one-third as long as the long slender postpedicel, venter black-haired, et least on the anterior segments. 2
- Style over half as long as the shorter. laterally gently convex, postpedicel, venter wholly pale haired. 3

2 Thorax mane set on a definitely demarcated black vitta . . . . . Comantella rotgeri James, 1937 [CO, NM, UT, AZ, CAN, ALB]  
- Medial vitta of thorax at most but poorly defined . . . . . Comantella fallei (Back, 1909) [CO, WY, NE, UT, CAN, ALB]  

3 Scutellum with 4-6 bristles . . . . . Comantella cristata (Coquillett, 1893) [CA]  
- Scutellum with 10 or more bristles . . . . . Comantella pacifica Curran, 1926 [CAN, BCA, USA, WA, UT, OR, NV]  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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