Menexenus (fly)

Menexenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Asilidae
Genus:Menexenus

Menexenus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 13 described species in Menexenus.[1][2]

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Menexenus:

  • Menexenus adveniens Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 c g
  • Menexenus batesii (Kirby, 1896) c g
  • Menexenus lacertinus (Westwood, 1848) c g
  • Menexenus nudiusculus Hausleithner, 1992 c g
  • Menexenus obtuselobatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 c g
  • Menexenus obtusespinosus Sinéty, 1901 c g
  • Menexenus perdentatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 c g
  • Menexenus quadrilobatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 c g
  • Menexenus rotunginus Giglio-Tos, 1914 c g
  • Menexenus schlingeri Artigas, 1982 c g
  • Menexenus semiarmatus (Westwood, 1848) c g
  • Menexenus tenmalainus Günther, 1938 c g
  • Menexenus veredus Artigas, 1970 c g

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Browse Menexenus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  2. 1 2 "Menexenus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  3. ↑ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-22.

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 2018-04-22.
  • 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 2018-04-22.
  • "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-04-22.


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