Catalogue of the Nearctic genera

Keys Comparison Catalogue Terminology Notes

Dasypogoninae
Blepharepiini
Blepharepium
Dasypogonini
Lestomyia *
Parataracticus
Saropogon
Taracticus
Isopogonini
Comantella
Cophura
Hodophylax
Nicocles
Omninablautus
Lastaurini
Diogmites

Lestomyia Williston, 1884
[Dasypogoninae: Dasypogonini]

Neotropical	Nearctic	Palaearctic	Afrotropical	Oriental	Australian & Oceania
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Description:	Williston, S.W. (1884): On the North American Asilidae (Dasypogoninae, Laphrinae), with a new genus of Syrphidae. - Transactions of the American Entomological Society 11(1883): 1-35 [19]; Philadelphia.
Type species:	Clavator sabulonum Osten-Sacken, 1877: 292

Literature:	Curran, C.H. (1931): New American Asilidae (Diptera) II. - American Museum Novitates 487: 25 pp.; New York [key]. Wilcox, J. (1937): Asilidae, new and otherwise, from the Southwest, with a key to the genus Stichopogon. - Pan-Pacific Entomologist 13: 37-45; San Francisco. Curran, C.H. (1942): Article III. - American Diptera. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80: 51-84 (53-58); New York. [key]

Nearctic species:

Lestomyia atripes Wilcox, 1937

Lestomyia fraudigera Williston, 1883

Lestomyia montis Cole, 1916

Lestomyia sabulona (Osten-Sacken, 1877)

Lestomyia strigipes Curran, 1931

Lestomyia unicolor Curran, 1942

Lestomyia atripes Wilcox, 1937

- male -

- female -

Key to the species

Founded on: Curran, C.H. (1942): Article III. - American Diptera. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80: 51-84 (53-58); New York. [amended]

	Scutellar bristles black, or mixed black and whitish.
	Scutellar bristles whitish.

	Coxae and base of femora black in ground color . . . . . Lestomyia montis Cole, 1916 [CA] and Lestomyia atripes Wilcox, 1937 [NM, AZ, UT]
	Coxae and base of femora reddish in ground color . . . . . Lestomyia fraudigera Williston, 1883 [CA]

	Femora and tibiae black above, reddish below . . . . . Lestomyia strigipes Curran, 1931 [WY, CO, AZ, NM]
	Femora black annulate or all reddish.

	Scutellum with six (rarely eight) bristles. Male genitalia reddish, twice as long as wide. Fore femora of female more than half black . . . . . Lestomyia sabulona (Osten-Sacken, 1877) (= L. redlandae Cole, 1916) [CA, UT?, ALB?, BCA?]
	Scutellum with four (rarely six) bristles. Male genitalia black, not half as long as wide. Fore femora of female at most with black median band . . . . . Lestomyia unicolor Curran, 1942 [AZ]