Megaphorus
| Megaphorus | |
|---|---|
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| Megaphorus clausicellus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| 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.
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, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
References
- 1 2 "Megaphorus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- 1 2 "Browse Megaphorus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- 1 2 "Megaphorus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- 1 2 "Megaphorus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
Further reading
- Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (319). hdl:2246/5949.
- McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.
- Geller-Grimm, Fritz (2004). "A world catalogue of the genera of the family Asilidae (Diptera)". Studia Dipterologica. 10.
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