Genus Scleropogon

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Scleropogon duncani at Ant Hill - Scleropogon duncani - male

Male, Scleropogon kelloggi? - Scleropogon kelloggi - male

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 Scleropogon

Explanation of Names

Scleropogon Loew 1866

'narrow beard'

Numbers

16 spp. in our area, 19 total(1)

Identification

see(2)

Range

w. Canada to Mexico; in our area, mostly western, with just 2 spp. in the east (both in se. US)(1)

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 Chuck Entz on 6 August, 2006 - 5:24pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2015 - 12:38pm

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