Nicocles (fly)

Nicocles
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Dasypogoninae
Tribe:	Dasypogonini
Genus:	Nicocles Jaennicke, 1867

Nicocles is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 15 described species in Nicocles. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

• Nicocles abdominalis Williston, 1883
• Nicocles aemulator (Loew, 1872)
• Nicocles analis Jaennicke, 1867
• Nicocles argentatus Coquillett, 1893
• Nicocles bromleyi Hardy, 1943
• Nicocles canadensis Curran, 1923
• Nicocles dives (Loew, 1866)
• Nicocles engelhardti Wilcox, 1946
• Nicocles lomae Cole, 1916
• Nicocles pictus (Loew, 1866)
• Nicocles politus (Say, 1823)
• Nicocles pollinosus (Wilcox, 1946)
• Nicocles reinhardi Bromley, 1934
• Nicocles rufus Williston, 1883
• Nicocles utahensis Banks, 1920

References

1. "Nicocles Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
2. "Nicocles Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
3. "Nicocles Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
4. "Browse Nicocles". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-28.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN   0-8493-0212-9.
• Bromley, S.W. (1950). "Florida Asilidae (Diptera) with descriptions of one new species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 43 (2): 227–239. doi:10.1093/aesa/43.2.227.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN   978-1402062421.
• Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/5949 . Retrieved 2018-02-28.
• Hull, F.M. (1962). "Robber flies of the world". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 224.
• McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.

External links

• Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
• "Diptera.info" . Retrieved 2018-02-28.