Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Dasypogoninae
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Nicocles
Genus
Nicocles
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon
(Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily
Asiloidea
Family
Asilidae (Robber Flies)
Subfamily
Dasypogoninae
Genus
Nicocles
Explanation of Names
Nicocles
Jaennicke 1867
Numbers
14 spp. in our area, 16 total
(
1
)
Range
Canada to Mexico; most spp. in w./sw. US (5 range into BC), 3 spp. in e. US
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
Information on robber flies, compiled by F. Geller-Grimm
Contributed by
john and jane balaban
on 14 June, 2005 - 4:19pm
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 17 January, 2013 - 7:08am