Taracticus

Taracticus
Taracticus octopunctatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Dasypogoninae
Genus:	Taracticus Loew, 1872

Taracticus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 16 described species in Taracticus. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Taracticus octopunctatus

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Taracticus:

• Taracticus aciculatus Pritchard, 1938
• Taracticus argentifacies James, 1953
• Taracticus dimidiatus (Macquart, 1847)
• Taracticus geniculatus (Bigot, 1878)
• Taracticus guerrerensis Pritchard, 1938
• Taracticus nigrimystaceus Williston, 1901
• Taracticus nigripes Williston, 1901
• Taracticus octopunctatus (Say, 1823)
• Taracticus paulus Pritchard, 1938
• Taracticus ruficaudus Curran, 1930
• Taracticus rufipennis (Macquart, 1847)
• Taracticus similis Williston, 1901
• Taracticus vitripennis (Bellardi, 1861)
• † Psilocephala hypogaea (Cockerell, 1909)
• † Taracticus contusus Cockerell, 1910
• † Taracticus renovatus Cockerell, 1911

References

1. "Taracticus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Taracticus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Taracticus 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. Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. 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.

External links

• Media related to Taracticus at Wikimedia Commons