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Atomosia Macquart, 1838
[Laphriinae: Atomosiini]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
typ.loc.          

Description: Macquart, P.J.M. (1838): Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. - Mémoires de la Société royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Artes 1(2): 5-207, 14 pls. (14-172, pl. 7) [73]; Lille.
Type species: Atomosia incisuralis Macquart, 1838: 76 [1839: 189]
Literature: Curran, C.H. (1930): New American Asilidae (Diptera). - American Museum Novitates 425: 21 pp.; New York [key]. Curran, C.H. (1934): The families and genera of North American Diptera. - New York: 512 pp. (166-184) [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Atomosia echemon (Walker, 1849)
  2. Atomosia glabrata (Say, 1823)
  3. Atomosia melanopogon Hermann, 1912
  4. Atomosia mucida Osten-Sacken, 1887
  5. Atomosia mucidoides Bromley, 1951
  6. Atomosia puella (Wiedemann, 1828)
  7. Atomosia pusilla Macquart, 1838
  8. Atomosia rufipes Macquart, 1847
  9. Atomosia sayii Johnson, 1903

Atomosia melanopogon Hermann, 1912

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
head lateral   head dorsal
head frontal   antenna
wing   wing tip
anatergite   postmetacoxal area
postmetacoxal area

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view

 

 

 

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