Megaphorus

Megaphorus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Asilidae
Subfamily:Asilinae
Genus:Megaphorus
Bigot, 1857

Megaphorus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 18 described species in Megaphorus.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These 18 species belong to the genus Megaphorus:

  • Megaphorus acrus (Curran, 1931) i c g b
  • Megaphorus brunneus (Cole, 1964) c g
  • Megaphorus clausicellus (Macquart, 1850) i c g b
  • Megaphorus durangoensis Cole & Pritchard, 1964 c g
  • Megaphorus flavidus (Cole, 1964) c g b
  • Megaphorus frustra Cole & Pritchard, 1964 c
  • Megaphorus frustrus (PRITCHARD, 1935) c g b
  • Megaphorus guildiana (Williston, 1885) i c g
  • Megaphorus intermedius (Tucker, 1907) i c g
  • Megaphorus laphroides (Wiedemann, 1828) i c g b
  • Megaphorus lascrucensis (Cole, 1964) i c g
  • Megaphorus martinorum (Cole, 1964) i c g
  • Megaphorus megachile (Coquillett, 1893) i c g b
  • Megaphorus minutus (Macquart, 1834) i c g b
  • Megaphorus pallidus (Johnson, 1958) i c g b
  • Megaphorus prudens (Pritchard, 1935) i c g b
  • Megaphorus pulchrus (Pritchard, 1935) i c g
  • Megaphorus willistoni (Cole, 1964) i c g b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Megaphorus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Megaphorus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  3. 1 2 "Megaphorus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  4. 1 2 "Megaphorus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-24.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Bromley, S.W. (1950). "Florida Asilidae (Diptera) with descriptions of one new species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 43: 227–239.
  • Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825.
  • Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  • Hull, F.M. (1962). "Robber flies of the world". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 224.
  • McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.

  • Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  • "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-04-24.
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