Proctacanthella

Proctacanthella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Asilinae
Genus:	Proctacanthella Bromley, 1934

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

Species

These eight species belong to the genus Proctacanthella:

• Proctacanthella cacopiloga (Hine, 1909) ^{i c g b}
• Proctacanthella exquisita (Osten Sacken, 1887) ^{i c g b}
• Proctacanthella leucopogon ^g
• Proctacanthella robusta Bromley, 1951 ^{i c g b}
• Proctacanthella taina Scarbrough & Perez-Gelabert, 2006 ^{c g}
• Proctacanthella tolandi Wilcox, 1965 ^{i c g}
• Proctacanthella wilcoxi Bromley, 1935 ^{i c g}
• Proctacanthella willistoni Fisher & Wilcox, 1987 ^{i g b}

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

References

1. "Proctacanthella Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
2. "Browse Proctacanthella". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
3. "Proctacanthella". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
4. "Proctacanthella Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-29.

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.