Comantella

Comantella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Dasypogoninae
Genus:	Comantella Curran, 1923

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

Species

These four species belong to the genus Comantella:

• Comantella cristata (Coquillett, 1893) ^{i c g}
• Comantella fallei (Back, 1909) ^{i c g}
• Comantella pacifica Curran, 1926 ^{i c g b}
• Comantella rotgeri James, 1937 ^{i c g}

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

References

1. "Comantella Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
2. "Browse Comantella". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
3. "Comantella". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
4. "Comantella Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.

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.