Asilus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Asilomorpha
Superfamilia: Asiloidea

Familia: Asilidae
Subfamilia: Asilinae
Tribus: Asilini
Genus: Asilus
Species: A. amphinome – A. barbarus – A. crabroniformis – A. sericeus – A. willistoni –
Name

Asilus Linnaeus, 1778

Type species: Asilus crabroniformis Linnaeus, 1778
References

Martin, C.H., 1975: The generic and specific characters of four old and six new Asilini genera in the western United States and Central America (Diptera: Asilidae). Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences 119: 1–107.

Asilus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 150 described species in Asilus.[1][2][3]

See also

List of Asilus species

References

"Asilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
"Asilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

"Asilus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

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.