Lestomyia

Lestomyia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Dasypogoninae
Genus:	Lestomyia Williston, 1884

Lestomyia is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about six described species in Lestomyia. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These six species belong to the genus Lestomyia:

• Lestomyia atripes Wilcox, 1937 ^{i c g}
• Lestomyia fraudigera (Williston, 1883) ^{i c g}
• Lestomyia montis Cole, 1916 ^{i c g}
• Lestomyia sabulona (Osten Sacken, 1877) ^{i c g}
• Lestomyia strigipes Curran, 1931 ^{i c g b}
• Lestomyia unicolor Curran, 1942 ^{i c g}

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

References

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