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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora) » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilinae » Machimus

Genus Machimus

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Robber Fly - Machimus - male Mid-sized Asilid - Machimus - female Robber Fly - Machimus - female Robber Fly - Machimus notatus - male - female Bee Hunter? - Machimus That's Gonna Leave A Mark - Machimus antimachus Robberflies - Machimus paropus - male - female Robber 8 - Machimus occidentalis - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora))
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Asilidae (Robber Flies)
Subfamily Asilinae
Genus Machimus
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Loew, 1849.
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists 22 species. But this is currently controversial. Sources still leave some of the genera in Tolmerus and Asilus but newer classifications are going with 36 species in Machimus.
Internet References
Herschel Raney
Contributed by Cotinis on 25 February, 2005 - 10:37pm
Additional contributions by hraney
Last updated 14 February, 2007 - 7:26pm

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