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Family Asilidae - Robber Flies

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New Species of Ommatius from America, with Key (Asilidae, Diptera)

By Curran CH
American Museum Novitates, 327: 1-6, 1928

Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 15 July, 2019 - 5:48pm

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Review of the Genus Ommatius Wiedemann (Diptera: Asilidae) in Eastern United States with Descriptions of Five New Species

By Bullington SW and Lavigne RJ
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 77 (4): 372–392, 1984

Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 15 July, 2019 - 5:42pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Longhorn Robbers (Dioctria)

The Nearctic Species Of Dioctria And Six Related Genera (Diptera, Asilidae)

By Soenartono Adisoemarto & D. M. Wood
Quaest. Ent. 11: 505-576. (Quaestiones Entomologicae), 1975

Keys to species.

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Contributed by Glen Forister on 12 December, 2024 - 9:45am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Stenopogoninae » Ospriocerus

A revision of Ospriocerus (Diptera: Asilidae)

By Martin C.H.
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4 35: 401-424, 1968

Contributed by v belov on 10 March, 2015 - 12:05am

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Review of the genus Ceraturgus Wiedemann (Diptera: Asilidae) in North America north of Mexico

By Barnes J.
Zootaxa 1766: 1–45, 2008

Contributed by v belov on 15 January, 2013 - 8:31pm

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Molecular phylogeny of the genus Lasiopogon (Diptera: Asilidae) and a taxonomic revision of the bivittatus section

By McKnight, Tristan A. and Cannings, Robert A.
Zootaxa 4835 (1): 001–115, 2020

Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 1 September, 2020 - 10:00pm

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The systematics of Lasiopogon (Diptera: Asilidae)

By Cannings R.A.
University of British Columbia Press. 400 pp., 2002

Abstract | ordering info & more

Contributed by v belov on 3 April, 2012 - 12:00pm

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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.

Contributed by v belov on 28 November, 2010 - 2:13pm

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