Dioctria cothurnata

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Dioctria cothurnata
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Dioctria cothurnata Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Asilidae
Genus: Dioctria
Species:
D. cothurnata
Binomial name
Dioctria cothurnata
Meigen, 1820 [1]

Dioctria cothurnata is a Palearctic species of robber fly in the family Asilidae. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Meigen, J.W. (1820). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Aachen: Zweiter Theil. Forstmann. pp. xxxvi + 363. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  2. ↑ Verrall, G. H., 1909 Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain British flies Volume 5 London : Gurney and Jackson, 1909.BHL Full text with illustrations
  3. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E; Drake, Martin (2014). British Soldierflies and their allies (an illustrated guide to their identification and ecology) (2 ed.). Reading: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 528 pp, 20 plates. ISBN   9781899935079.
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