Cerotainia
| Cerotainia | |
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| Cerotainia sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Asilidae |
| Subfamily: | Laphriinae |
| Genus: | Cerotainia Schiner, 1866 |
Cerotainia is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 30 described species in Cerotainia.[1][2][3][4]
Species[edit]
These 32 species belong to the genus Cerotainia:
- Cerotainia albipilosa Curran, 1930 i c g b
- Cerotainia argyropasta Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia argyropus Schiner, 1868[5]
- Cerotainia argyropyga Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia atrata Jones, 1907 i c g
- Cerotainia aurata Schiner, 1868[5]
- Cerotainia bella Schiner, 1867 c g
- Cerotainia brasiliensis Schiner, 1867 c g
- Cerotainia camposi Curran, 1934 c g
- Cerotainia dasythrix Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia debilis Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia dubia Bigot, 1878 c g
- Cerotainia feminea Curran, 1930 c g
- Cerotainia flavipes Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia jamaicensis Johnson, 1919 c g
- Cerotainia laticeps Bromley, 1929 c g
- Cerotainia leonina Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia macrocera (Say, 1823) i c g b
- Cerotainia marginata Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia melanosoma Scarbrough & Knutson, 1989 c g
- Cerotainia minima Curran, 1930 c g
- Cerotainia nigra Bigot, 1878 c g
- Cerotainia nigripennis (Bellardi, 1861) c g
- Cerotainia ornatipes James, 1953 c g
- Cerotainia propinqua Schiner, 1868[5]
- Cerotainia rhopalocera (Lynch Arribalzaga, 1882) c g
- Cerotainia sarae Rueda, 1998 c g
- Cerotainia sola Scarbrough & Perez-Gelabert, 2006 c g
- Cerotainia unicolor Hermann, 1912 c g
- Cerotainia violaceithorax Lynch Arribalzaga, 1880 c g
- Cerotainia willistoni Curran, 1930 c g
- Cerotainia xanthoptera (Wiedemann, 1828) c
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Cerotainia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ a b "Browse Cerotainia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ a b "Cerotainia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ a b "Cerotainia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ a b c Schiner, I.R. (1868). Diptera. vi In [Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von (in charge)], Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara. Zool. 2(1)B. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn. pp. 388pp., 4 pls.
Further reading[edit]
- 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[edit]
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