To robber flies fauna (Diptera: Asilidae) of Mordovia, Russia

DMITRY M ASTAKHOV (Volgograd State University, Universitetskiy pr., 100, Volgograd 400062, Russia)
ALEXANDER B RUCHIN (Joint Directorate of Mordovia State Nature Reserve and Smolny National Park, Saransk, Russia)
OLGA D ROMADINA (Volgograd State University, Universitetskiy pr., 100, Volgograd 400062, Russia)
IVAN M PRISTREM (Volgograd State University, Universitetskiy pr., 100, Volgograd 400062, Russia)

Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity
Vol. 20 No. 4 (2019)

Abstract. On the basis of long-term data (2007-2018), the fauna of robber flies (Asilidae) of the Republic of Mordovia was studied. Taking into account our own and literary data, 35 species of robber flies from 18 genera were noted. Of them, 19 species were noticed in the Republic of Mordovia for the first time. We presented the photos of morphological traits of Choerades fuliginosa (Panzer, [1798]), Choerades gilva (Linnaeus, 1758), Choerades ignea (Meigen, 1820), Laphria gibbosa (Linnaeus, 1758), Andrenosoma albibarbe (Meigen, 1820), Andrenosoma atra (Linnaeus, 1758), Didysmachus picipes (Meigen, 1820), Dysmachus stylifer (Loew, 1854), Pamponerus germanicus (Linnaeus, 1758), Philonicus albiceps (Meigen, 1820), Machimus gonatistes (Zeller,1840), Neoitamus cothurnatus (Meigen,1820), Neoitamus cyanurus (Loew, 1849), Dioctria atricapilla Meigen, 1804, Leptogaster cylindrica (De Geer, 1776).