Psilocurus

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
Subfamily Laphystiinae
Genus: Psilocurus
Species: P. adolfoi –
References

Ayala Landa, J.M., 2013: Una especie nueva del género Psilocurus Loew procedente de Venezuela (Diptera: Asilidae). Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 52: 67–70.

Psilocurus is a genus of robber flies in the family of Asilidae. There are about 14 described species in Psilocurus.[1][2][3][4]
Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Psilocurus:

Psilocurus birdi Curran, 1931
Psilocurus blascoi Weinberg & Bachli, 2001
Psilocurus camposi Curran, 1931
Psilocurus caudatus Williston, 1901
Psilocurus hypopygialis (Paramonov, 1930)
Psilocurus modestus (Williston, 1893)
Psilocurus negrus Lehr, 1974
Psilocurus nudiusculus Loew, 1874
Psilocurus pallustris Hull, 1961
Psilocurus puellus Bromley, 1934
Psilocurus pygmaeus Hull, 1961
Psilocurus reinhardi Bromley, 1951
Psilocurus tibialis Hull, 1961
† Paraclia tarsalis (Statz, 1940)

References

"Psilocurus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Psilocurus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Psilocurus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Dikow, Torsten (2019). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. 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.