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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Stenopogon
Genus
Stenopogon
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
Stenopogoninae
Genus
Stenopogon
Explanation of Names
Stenopogon
Loew 1847
Numbers
almost 50 spp. in our area, >150 total
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Identification
see
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2
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Range
diversity about equally divided between Eurasia and N. America (w. Canada to Costa Rica); in our area, mostly sw. US (the wast majority restricted to CA), with 3 spp. more widely western, ranging into ND-IA-MO-AR
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Works Cited
1.
Information on robber flies, compiled by F. Geller-Grimm
2.
The genera Stenopogon Loew and Scleropogon Loew in America north of Mexico (Diptera: Asilidae)
Wilcox J. 1971. California Academy of Sciences, occ. paper 89: 1-134.
Contributed by
Martin Hauser
on 27 March, 2006 - 11:14am
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2015 - 12:37pm