Tabuda planiceps (Loew)

Gibson, Joel F. & Cannings, Robert A., 2025, The Stiletto Flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska, Zootaxa 5618 (4), pp. 481-508 : 495

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FBDA7E17-7857-43FC-A87B-6044C6044860

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15218746

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F94187BB-042F-FF9E-559E-FCF1FB741532

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scientific name

Tabuda planiceps (Loew)
status

 

Tabuda planiceps (Loew) View in CoL

( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 6–13 )

Specimens examined (42). BC: Chopaka; Monte Lake; Okanagan Falls, White Lake; Oliver, Ripley Lake; Osoyoos, Mud lake; Osoyoos, Strawberry Creek; Osoyoos Lake, Haynes Lease; Penticton; Vaseux Creek; Vaseux Lake ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 14–19 ); Vernon. DEBU, RBCM, SEM.

Database and Literature records (24). BC: Chopaka; Grand Forks; Kamloops; Oliver; Osoyoos; Osoyoos, Kruger Mountain; Osoyoos, Richter Pass; Nicola; Okanagan Falls; Penticton; Vaseux Lake; Vaseux Lake, hills to E; Vernon. INHS, SEM.

iNaturalist records (14). BC: Bighorn; Columbia Gardens; Keremeos; Osoyoos, Kilpoola Lake area; Osoyoos, Spotted Lake; Osoyoos, Haynes Lease; Spences Bridge (e.g., iNat 121543071, 122086201 ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 6–13 ), 139358985, 182376315, 206425359). With its large antennae, the species has a distinctive appearance and is readily identified in the field, which accounts for the significant number of iNaturalist records.

Conservation status. BC: S3S4

Distributional notes. In British Columbia, Tabuda is probably restricted to dry grassland and forest habitats in the Thompson-Okanagan and Kootenay regions (Chopaka, Spences Bridge, Columbia Gardens north to Kamloops), where it is probably at the northern limit of its range.

Ecoprovinces and other designations. BC: Southern Interior, Southern Interior Mountains.

Range. Intermontane. British Columbia south to California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Nebraska ( Webb et al. 2013).

Biological notes. Flight period: 4 April–24 May. Flight is early; only eight of 68 records are after mid-May and none are later than May. The genus inhabits sandy sites ( Irwin & Lyneborg 1980). Records in British Columbia are from mostly lowland sites in sandy grasslands ( Purshia tridentata , Artemisia tridentata , Pseudoroegneria spicata habitats) and adjacent open Pinus ponderosa and Pseudotsuga menziesii woods ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 14–19 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Therevidae

Genus

Tabuda

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