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Dioctria Meigen, 1803
[Dioctriinae: Dioctriini]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
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Description: Meigen, J.W. (1803): Versuch einer neuen Gattungseintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. VII. - Magazin für Insektenkunde 2. Herausgegeben von Karl Illiger: 259-281 (269-270) [270]; Braunschweig.
Type species: Asilus oelandicus Linnaeus, 1758: 606
Synonyms: Methylla Hansen, 1883
Literature: Coquillett, D.W. (1893): Synopsis of the asilid genus Dioctria. - The Canadian Entomologist 25: 80; Ottawa [key]. Melander, A.L. (1923): Studies in Asilidae (Diptera). - Psyche. A Journal of Entomology. Cambridge Entomological Club 30(6): 207-219; Cambridge [key]. Wilcox, J. & Martin, C.H. (1941): The genus Dioctria Meigen in North America (Diptera - Asilidae). - Entomologica Americana N.S. 21(1): 1-22; New York [key]. 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.

Nearctic species:

  1. Dioctria henshawi Johnson, 1918
  2. Dioctria hyalipennis (Fabricius, 1794)
  3. Dioctria parvula Coquillett, 1893
  4. Dioctria pleuralis Banks, 1917
  5. Dioctria pusio Osten-Sacken, 1877
  6. Dioctria vera Back, 1909
  7. Dioctria wilcoxi Adisoemarto & Wood, 1975

Dioctria hyalipennis (Fabricius, 1794)

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
head dorsal   head lateral
head lateral   head frontal
antenna   style
proboscis lateral   proboscis ventral
occiput   thorax dorsal
thorax lateral   hind leg
hind femur   hind tarsi
wing   wing
wing

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view
head frontal

 

 

 

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