Stonemyia velutina Bigot, 1892:615
Velvety stonian horsefly, Volutine stonemyian tabanid fly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Stonemyia volutina Bigot, 1892:615 [orth. error fide WCMC, 1996]; Stonemyia albomacula Stone, 1940:60
Conservation Status
Last record: 8 June 1942 (Middlekauff & Lane, 1980:19)
Rediscovered at 5:42PM on 26 May 2023 (Van Loon, 2023:18; bugguide.net observation; Research grade iNaturalist observation)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bigot, J. M. F. (1892). Descriptions de Diptères nouveaux. Tabanidi. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 5: 602-691.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (comps and eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Burger, J. F. (1995). Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) of North America north of Mexico. Contributions on Entomology International 1. 100 pp.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. (1990). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Middlekauff, Woodrow Wilson and Lane, Robert S. (1980). Adult and immature Tabanidae (Diptera) of California. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 22: vi + 99 pp.
Stone, A., C.W. Sabrosky, W.W. Wirth, et al. (1983). A catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 1696 pp.
Van Loon, Trevor T. (2023). California comeback: Stonemyia velutina reappears in the West Sierra foothills. Fly Times 71: 18-22.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1996a). Stonemyia volutina. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 May 2013.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1996b). Stonemyia volutina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T20867A9234097. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T20867A9234097.en. Downloaded on 25 June 2021.
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1892/stonemyia-velutina
https://www.instagram.com/chloe.van.loon/p/C1JFgqxxpOH/?img_index=1
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2254303/bgpage
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163917492
Acknowledgements
I thank Ben McBride for alerting me to the rediscovery of this species.