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Heteropogon Loew, 1847
[Stenopogoninae: Cyrtopogonini]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
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Description: Loew, H. (1847): Über die europäischen Raubfliegen (Diptera, Asilica). - Linnaea entomologica 2: 384-568, 585-591 [488]; Szczecin (= Stettin) - Berlin.
Type species: Dasypogon manicatus Meigen, 1820: 268
Synonyms: Anisopogon Loew, 1874
Literature: Pritchard, A.E. (1935): New Asilidae from the southwestern United States (Diptera). - American Museum Novitates 813: 13 pp.; New York [key]. James, M.T. (1941): The robber flies of colorado (Diptera, Asilidae). - Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 14(1): 27-53; Manhattan - Lawrence [key]. Wilcox, J. (1941): New Heteropogon with a key to the species (Diptera, Asilidae). - Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 36: 50-56; New York - Lancaster [key]. Martin, C.H. (1962): The plumose hairs of Heteropogon and two new species from Mexico (Diptera: Asilidae). - Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 35: 371-377; Manhattan - Lawrence [key]. Wilcox, J. (1965): New Heteropogon Loew, with a key to species and the description of a new genus (Diptera: Asilidae). - Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science 64: 207-222; Los Angeles [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Heteropogon arizonensis Wilcox, 1941
  2. Heteropogon cazieri Wilcox, 1965
  3. Heteropogon chircahua Wilcox, 1965
  4. Heteropogon cirrhatus (Osten-Sacken, 1877)
  5. Heteropogon currani Pritchard, 1935
  6. Heteropogon davisi Wilcox, 1965
  7. Heteropogon divisus (Coquillett, 1902)
  8. Heteropogon duncani Wilcox, 1941
  9. Heteropogon fisheri Wilcox, 1965
  10. Heteropogon johnsoni (Back, 1904)
  11. Heteropogon lautus Loew, 1872
  12. Heteropogon ludius (Coquillett, 1893)
  13. Heteropogon macerinus (Walker, 1849)
  14. Heteropogon maculinervis James, 1937
  15. Heteropogon martini Wilcox, 1965
  16. Heteropogon patruelis (Coquillett, 1893)
  17. Heteropogon paurosomus Pritchard, 1935
  18. Heteropogon phoenicurus Loew, 1872
  19. Heteropogon rubidus (Coquillett, 1893)
  20. Heteropogon rubrifasciatus Bromley, 1931
  21. Heteropogon senilis (Bigot, 1878)
  22. Heteropogon spatulatus Pritchard, 1935
  23. Heteropogon stonei Wilcox, 1965
  24. Heteropogon tolandi Wilcox, 1965
  25. Heteropogon wilcoxi James, 1934

Heteropogon senilis (Bigot, 1878)

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
head lateral   head frontal
thorax lateral   hind leg
middle leg   front leg
wing   wing
abdomen lateral

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view

 

 

 

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