Cerotainia

Cerotainia
Cerotainia sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Laphriinae
Genus:	Cerotainia Schiner, 1866

Cerotainia is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 30 described species in Cerotainia. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These 32 species belong to the genus Cerotainia:

• Cerotainia albipilosa Curran, 1930 ^{i c g b}
• Cerotainia argyropasta Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia argyropus Schiner, 1868 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia argyropyga Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia atrata Jones, 1907 ^{i c g}
• Cerotainia aurata Schiner, 1868 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia bella Schiner, 1867 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia brasiliensis Schiner, 1867 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia camposi Curran, 1934 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia dasythrix Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia debilis Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia dubia Bigot, 1878 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia feminea Curran, 1930 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia flavipes Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia jamaicensis Johnson, 1919 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia laticeps Bromley, 1929 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia leonina Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia macrocera (Say, 1823) ^{i c g b}
• Cerotainia marginata Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia melanosoma Scarbrough & Knutson, 1989 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia minima Curran, 1930 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia nigra Bigot, 1878 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia nigripennis (Bellardi, 1861) ^{c g}
• Cerotainia ornatipes James, 1953 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia propinqua Schiner, 1868 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia rhopalocera (Lynch Arribalzaga, 1882) ^{c g}
• Cerotainia sarae Rueda, 1998 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia sola Scarbrough & Perez-Gelabert, 2006 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia unicolor Hermann, 1912 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia violaceithorax Lynch Arribalzaga, 1880 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia willistoni Curran, 1930 ^{c g}
• Cerotainia xanthoptera (Wiedemann, 1828) ^c

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[1] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[2] g = GBIF, ^[3] b = Bugguide.net ^[4]

References

1. "Cerotainia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
2. "Browse Cerotainia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
3. "Cerotainia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
4. "Cerotainia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.

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 Cerotainia at Wikimedia Commons