Asilus

Asilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Asilinae
Genus:	Asilus Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Asilus crabroniformis Linnaeus, 1758
Diversity
at least 210 species

Asilus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 150 described species in Asilus. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

See also

• List of Asilus species

References

1. "Asilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
2. "Asilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
3. "Asilus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

Further reading

• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (319). hdl: 2246/5949 .
• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN   978-0-660-10731-8.
• Geller-Grimm, Fritz (2004). "A world catalogue of the genera of the family Asilidae (Diptera)". Studia Dipterologica. 10.

External links

• Media related to Asilus at Wikimedia Commons