Echthodopa

Echthodopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Stenopogoninae
Genus:	Echthodopa Loew, 1866

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

Species

These four species belong to the genus Echthodopa:

• Echthodopa carolinensis Bromley, 1951
• Echthodopa formosa Loew, 1872
• Echthodopa pubera Loew, 1866
• Echthopoda pubera Loew, 1866

References

1. "Echthodopa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Echthodopa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Echthodopa genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. Dikow, Torsten (2019). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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.