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Species Parataracticus wyliei

 
 
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New Asilidae from Colorado
By Maurice Theodore James
American Museum novitates ; no. 596, 1933

Robber flies of the world: the genera of the family Asilidae
By Hull F.M.
USNM Bull. 224: 1-907, 1962
Full text Pt.1Pt.2

The phylogeny of robber flies (Asilidae) inferred from ultraconserved elements
By Cohen C.M., Noble K., Cole J.T., Brewer M.S.
Sys. Entomol. 46: 812-826, 2021

Records of Coleoptera as prey of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) in eastern New Mexico and west Texas.
By Pollock, D.A. and R.J. Lavigne.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 121(1): 81-102., 2019
BioOne

Pollock, D.A. and R.J. Lavigne. 2019. Records of Coleoptera as prey of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) in eastern New Mexico and west Texas. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 121(1): 81-102.

Abstract

Two hundred and ninety-three records for 20 families of Coleoptera (excluding Carabidae) preyed upon by 36 species (in 18 genera) of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) in eastern New Mexico and adjacent west Texas are listed. Among genera of asilid predators, individuals of Heteropogon Loew, 1847 (4 spp.) were responsible for 54.6% of all Coleoptera prey records, followed by Efferia Coquillett, 1893 (7 spp.) with 10.2% and Diogmites Loew, 1866 (3 spp.) with 9.2%. The three genera of asilids with the highest percentage of beetle prey among all insect and spider prey collected were Ospriocerus Loew, 1866 (41% of 44 records), Heteropogon Loew, 1847 (23% of 814 records) and Proctacanthus Macquart, 1838 (10% of 440 records).

Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of the Yukon
By Robert A. Cannings
Royal British Columbia Museum, P.O. Box 9815, Stn. Prov. Govt. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 9W2, 1997
Available as PDF doc from U. of Alberta, giving species accounts of 20 species recorded in Yukon.

Originally published as pp. 637–662 in H.V. Danks and J.A. Downes (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa. 1034 pp. 1997.

Robber flies of Utah (Diptera: Asilidae)
By Nelson C.R.
Great Basin Nat. 47: 38-90, 1987

A literature-based checklist of Kansas robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae)
By Beckemeyer R.J.
The Prairie Naturalist 33(2): 65-92, 2001

Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera: Asiloidea)
By Dikow T.
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 319: 1–175, 2009
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