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Furcilla Martin, 1975
[Apocleinae]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
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Description: Martin, C.H. (1975): The generic and specific characters of four old and six new Asilini genera in the Western United States, Mexico and Central America (Diptera: Asilidae). - Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 119: 1-107 [76]; San Francisco.
Type species: Furcilla dorothyae Martin, 1975: 76
Literature: Martin, C.H. (1975): The generic and specific characters of four old and six new Asilini genera in the Western United States, Mexico and Central America (Diptera: Asilidae). - Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 119: 1-107; San Francisco [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Furcilla dorothyae Martin, 1975
  2. Furcilla petila Martin, 1975

Furcilla petila Martin, 1975

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
wing   scutellum dorsal
scutellum lateral

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view
wing   scutellum dorsal
scutellum lateral


Key to the species

Founded on: Martin, C.H. (1975): The generic and specific characters of four old and six new Asilini genera in the Western United States, Mexico and Central America (Diptera: Asilidae). - Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 119: 1-107 [76]; San Francisco. [amended]

1 Epandrium long and slender, apically notched (Fig. 53, Martin, 1975: 105) . . . . . Furcilla petila Martin, 1975 [MEX, SON]  
- Epandrium shorter, apically rounded (Fig. 48, Martin, 1975: 105) . . . . . Furcilla dorothyae Martin, 1975 [MEX, SON]  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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