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Dicolonus Loew, 1866
[Dioctriinae: Echthodopini]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
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Description: Loew, H. (1866): Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. - Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 1-54 (15-37) [32]; Berlin.
Type species: Dicolonus simplex Loew, 1866: 32
Literature: Adisoemarto, S. & Wood, D.M. (1975): The Nearctic species of Dioctria and six related genera (Diptera, Asilidae). - Quaestiones entomologicae. University of Alberta 11: 505-576; Edmonton [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Dicolonus medius Adisoemarto & Wood, 1975
  2. Dicolonus nigricentrus Adisoemarto & Wood, 1975
  3. Dicolonus pulchrum Adisoemarto & Wood, 1975
  4. Dicolonus simplex Loew, 1866
  5. Dicolonus sparsipilosus Back, 1909

Dicolonus sparsipilosus Back, 1909

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
head dorsal   head lateral
head lateral   ´face lateral
head frontal   proboscis
antenna   thorax dorsal
scutellum dorsal   wing
wing   wing
abdomen dorsal

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view

 

 

 

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