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Asilinae
Asilinae is a large subfamily of flies in the family Asilidae, the robber flies and assassin flies. It includes over 180 genera. See also * List of Asilinae genera References External links * * Asilomorpha subfamilies {{Asilidae-stub ...
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List Of Asilinae Genera
These 183 genera belong to Asilinae, a subfamily of robber flies in the family Asilidae. Asilinae genera *'' Abrophila'' Daniels, 1987 *'' Acasilus'' Londt, 2005 *'' Afroepitriptus'' Lehr, 1992 *'' Afromochtherus'' Lehr, 1996 *'' Albibarbefferia'' Artigas and Papavero, 1997 *'' Albicoma'' Lehr, 1986 *'' Alcimus'' Loew, 1848 *'' Amblyonychus'' Hermann, 1921 *'' Anacinaces'' Enderlein, 1914 *''Anarmostus'' Loew, 1860 *'' Aneomochtherus'' Lehr, 1996 *'' Antipalus'' Loew, 1849 *'' Antiphrisson'' Loew, 1849 *'' Apoclea'' Macquart, 1838 *'' Apotinocerus'' Hull, 1962 *'' Argillemisca'' Lehr, 1967 *'' Aridefferia'' Artigas and Papavero, 1997 *'' Aristofolia'' Ayala Landa, 1978 *''Artigasus'' Ă–zdikmen, 2010 *'' Asilella'' Lehr, 1970 *'' Asiloephesus'' Lehr, 1992 *''Asilus'' Linnaeus, 1758 *'' Asiola'' Daniels, 1977 *'' Astochia'' Becker in Becker and Stein, 1913 *'' Atractocoma'' Artigas, 1970 *''Blepharotes'' Duncan, 1840 *'' Caenoura'' Londt, 2002 *'' Carinefferia'' Artigas and ...
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Asilinae
Asilinae is a large subfamily of flies in the family Asilidae, the robber flies and assassin flies. It includes over 180 genera. See also * List of Asilinae genera References External links * * Asilomorpha subfamilies {{Asilidae-stub ...
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Asilidae
The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight. Overview The Asilidae are a family in the order Diptera, the true flies. The common name for members of the family is the robber flies. The Asilidae are cosmopolitan, with over 7000 described species. Latreille was the authority for establishing the family in 1802. The Asilidae, together with Bombyliidae and Therevidae, are the most representative families of the superfamily of Asiloidea and they form one of the most characteristic groups of the lower Brachycera. Robber flies have stout, spiny legs and three simple eyes ( ocelli) in a characteristic depression on the tops of their head between the ...
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Efferia Aestuans
''Efferia aestuans'' is a species of insect in the family Asilidae, the robber flies. It is native to eastern North America, where it ranges from Ontario and New Hampshire south into Florida and New Mexico. It was originally described as ''Asilus aestuans'' in Carl Linnaeus' 1763 work ''Centuria Insectorum The first page of ''Centuria Insectorum'', as included in ''Amoenitates Academicæ'' ' (Latin, "one hundred insects") is a 1763 taxonomic work by Carl Linnaeus, and defended as a thesis by Boas Johansson; which of the two men should for taxonomi ...''. It reaches a body length of 18 mm in males and 23 mm in females. References External links * Asilinae Diptera of North America Insects described in 1763 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Asilidae-stub ...
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