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Andrenosoma Rondani, 1856
[Laphriinae: Andrenosomini]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
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Description: Rondani, A.C. (1856): Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol.1. Genera italica ordinis dipterorum ordinatim disposita et in familias et stirpes aggregata. - Parmae (Parma): 228 pp. [160].
Type species: Asilus ater Linnaeus, 1758: 605
Literature: McAtee, W.L. (1919): Notes on the Nearctic Nusa (Diptera, Asilidae). - Ohio naturalist 19: 244-248; Columbus [key]. Curran, C.H. (1931): New American Asilidae (Diptera) II. - American Museum Novitates 487: 25 pp.; New York [key]. Martin, C.H. (1966): The status of Andrenosoma Rondani, Pilica Curran, and Pogonosoma Rondani, with two new species (Diptera: Asilidae). - Pan-Pacific Entomologist 42(4): 323-328; San Francisco [key]. Fisher, E.M. (1986): A reclassification of the robber fly tribe Andrenosomini, with a revision of the genus Dasyllis Loew (Diptera: Asilidae). - Riverside: Ph.D. thesis, University of California: 361 pp. [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Andrenosoma corallia Martin, 1966
  2. Andrenosoma cruentum (McAtee, 1919)
  3. Andrenosoma fulvicaudum (Say, 1823)
  4. Andrenosoma hesperium Martin, 1966
  5. Andrenosoma igneum Bromley, 1929
  6. Andrenosoma sicarium (McAtee, 1919)
  7. Andrenosoma xanthocnemum (Wiedemann, 1828)

Andrenosoma fulvicaudum (Say, 1823)

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
dorsolateral view   head lateral
head frontal   proboscis lateral
proboscis frontal   wing
wing tip   wing posterior
abdomen ventral

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view
dorsolateral view

 

 

 

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