Observations on Development of Diogmites angustipennis Loew (Diptera: Asilidae) in a Cultivated Field

Whitney Cranshaw; Peter Forrence; Boris Kondratieff

doi:10.2317/0022-8567-92.2.492

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8 January 2020 Observations on Development of Diogmites angustipennis Loew (Diptera: Asilidae) in a Cultivated Field

Whitney Cranshaw, Peter Forrence, Boris Kondratieff

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J. of the Kansas Entomological Society, 92(2):492-494 (2020). https://doi.org/10.2317/0022-8567-92.2.492

Abstract

An agricultural field in southeastern Colorado grown under drip irrigation in 2014 allowed for observations related to the life history of immature stages of the asilid Diogmites angustipennis Loew. A survey of holes in the soil surface made during recent pupal eclosion provided an estimate that approximately 6,670 D. angustipennis/hectare had recently emerged at the site. The field had been in furrow irrigated field corn the previous three seasons indicating that larval stages of this species can develop sizable populations within cultivated fields. Larval prey were not observed, but the most abundant potential prey in this site would have been immature stages of diabroticine beetles.

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Whitney Cranshaw, Peter Forrence, and Boris Kondratieff "Observations on Development of Diogmites angustipennis Loew (Diptera: Asilidae) in a Cultivated Field," Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 92(2), 492-494, (8 January 2020). https://doi.org/10.2317/0022-8567-92.2.492

Received: 20 December 2017; Accepted: 5 June 2019; Published: 8 January 2020

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