Cophura

Cophura
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Dasypogoninae
Genus:	Cophura Osten Sacken, 1887

Cophura is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 50 species described in the genus Cophura. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These 54 species belong to the genus Cophura:

• Cophura acapulcae Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura ameles Pritchard, 1943 ^{i c g}
• Cophura apotma Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura arizonensis (Schaeffer, 1916) ^{i c g b}
• Cophura atypha Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura bella (Loew, 1872) ^{i c g b}
• Cophura brevicornis (Williston, 1883) ^{c g b}
• Cophura caca Pritchard, 1943 ^{i c g}
• Cophura calla Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura clausa (Coquillett, 1893) ^{i c g}
• Cophura cora Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura dammersi Wilcox, 1965 ^{i g}
• Cophura daphne Pritchard, 1943 ^{i c g}
• Cophura dora Pritchard, 1943 ^{i c g}
• Cophura feigei Kaletta, 1983 ^{c g}
• Cophura fergusoni Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Cophura fisheri Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Cophura flavus Wilcox, 1965 ^{c g}
• Cophura fur (Williston, 1885) ^{i c g}
• Cophura getzendaneri Wilcox, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Cophura hennei Wilcox and Martin, 1945 ^{i c g}
• Cophura hesperia (Pritchard, 1935) ^{i c g}
• Cophura humilis (Bellardi, 1861) ^c
• Cophura hurdi Hull, 1960 ^{i c g}
• Cophura igualae Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura luteus Wilcox, 1965 ^{c g}
• Cophura lutzi Curran, 1931 ^{c g}
• Cophura luzti (Curran, 1931) ^{i g}
• Cophura melanochaeta Williston, 1924 ^{c g}
• Cophura nephressa Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura painteri Pritchard, 1943 ^{i c g b}
• Cophura picta Carrera, 1955 ^{c g}
• Cophura pollinosa Curran, 1930 ^{i c g b}
• Cophura powersi Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Cophura pulchella Williston, 1901 ^{i c g}
• Cophura rozeni Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Cophura rubidus Wilcox, 1965 ^{c g}
• Cophura scitula Williston ^{i c g}
• Cophura sculleni Wilcox, 1937 ^{i c g}
• Cophura sodalis Osten Sacken, 1887 ^{i c g}
• Cophura stylosa Curran, 1931 ^{i c g}
• Cophura sundra Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura tanbarki Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Cophura texana Bromley, 1934 ^{i c g}
• Cophura timberlakei Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Cophura tolandi Wilcox, 1959 ^{i c g b}
• Cophura trunca (Coquillett, 1893) ^{i c g}
• Cophura vanduzeei Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Cophura vandykei Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g b}
• Cophura vera (Pritchard, 1935) ^{i c g}
• Cophura vitripennis (Curran, 1927) ^{i c g}
• Cophura wilcoxi Kaletta, 1983 ^{c g}
• Cophura willistoni Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}
• Cophura zandra Pritchard, 1943 ^{c g}

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

References

1. "Cophura Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
2. "Browse Cophura". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
3. "Cophura". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
4. "Cophura Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-28.

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.