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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Superfamily Asiloidea


The systematics of Lasiopogon (Diptera: Asilidae)
By Cannings R.A.
University of British Columbia Press. 400 pp., 2002

Taxonomic notes, new species and identification key to the New World species of Toxophora Meigen
By A.M. Cunha, C.J.E. Lamas, & M.S. Couri
Zootaxa 3038: 51–58 , 2011
Full title: "Taxonomic notes, new species and identification key to the New World species of Toxophora Meigen (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Toxophorinae)"


Abstract here: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/3038.html

The genus Diogmites (Robber Flies) in eastern United States (Diptera: Asilidae)
By Artigas J.N.
Ohio J. Sci. 66(4): 401-421, 1966
Full text
Nicely illustrated key, among other things.

Efferia Coquillett in America North of Mexico
By Wilcox, J.
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series., 34:85-234, 1966

The genus Diogmites in the eastern United States
By Artigas J.N.
Ohio J. Sci. 66: 401-421, 1966

Nearctic species related to Diogmites angustipennis Loew (Diptera: Asilidae)
By Barnes J.K.
Zootaxa 2545: 1–22, 2010

Key to the Nearctic species of the genus Laphria (Diptera:Asilidae)
By McAtee W.L.
Ohio J. Sci. 19: 143-172, 1918

The Laphriine Robber Flies of North America
By Bromley, Stanley Willard
Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University. Available from Ohio State as pdf.