Orthogonis

Orthogonis
Orthogonis ornatipennis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Laphriinae
Genus:	Orthogonis Herman, 1914

Orthogonis is a genus of robber flies (insects in the family Asilidae). There are about 14 described species in Orthogonis.

Orthogonis ornatipennis

Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Orthogonis:

• Orthogonis andamanensis Joseph & Parui, 1981 ^{c g}
• Orthogonis campbelli (Paramonov, 1958) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis clavata (White, 1914) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis erythropus (Wulp, 1898) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis liturifera (Walker, 1861) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis madagascarensis Bromley, 1942 ^{c g}
• Orthogonis mauroides (Paramonov, 1958) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis nigrocaerulea (Wulp, 1872) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis nitididorsalis Tagawa, 2006 ^{c g}
• Orthogonis obliquistriga (Walker, 1861) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis ornatipennis (Macquart, 1850) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis scapularis (Wiedemann, 1828) ^{c g}
• Orthogonis stygia (Bromley, 1931) ^{i c g b}
• Orthogonis zentae (Paramonov, 1958) ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

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 Orthogonis at Wikimedia Commons