Catalogue of the Nearctic genera

Keys Comparison Catalogue Terminology Notes

Apocleinae
Amblyonychus
Eccritosia
Furcilla
Mallophora *
Megaphorus
Nevadasilus
Proctacanthella
Proctacanthus
Promachella
Promachus
Efferia-group
Albibarbefferia
Aridefferia
Carinefferia
Efferia
Nerax
Pogonioefferia
Triorla
Tuberculefferia

Mallophora Macquart, 1838
[Apocleinae]

Neotropical	Nearctic	Palaearctic	Afrotropical	Oriental	Australian & Oceania
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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) [300]; Lille.
Type species:	Asilus bomboides Wiedemann, 1821: 203

Literature:	Williston, S.W. (1885): On the North American Asilidae (Part II). - Transactions of the American Entomological Society 12: 53-76; Philadelphia [key]. Coquillett, D.W. (1893): Synopsis of the asilid genera Mallophora and Nicocles. - The Canadian Entomologist 25: 118-120; Ottawa [key]. Bromley, S.W. (1925): The Bremus-resembling Mallophorae of the southeastern United States (Diptera, Asilidae). - Psyche. A Journal of Entomology. Cambridge Entomological Club 32: 190-194; Cambridge [key]. Curran, C.H. (1930): New Diptera from North and Central America. - American Museum Novitates 415: 16 pp.; New York [key]. Curran, C.H. (1934): The families and genera of North American Diptera. - New York: 512 pp. (166-184) [key]. Curran, C.H. (1941): Some new species of Mallophora Macquart (Asilidae, Diptera). - Journal of the New York Entomological Society 49: 269-284; New York [key]. Cole, F.R. & Pritchard, A.E. (1964): The genus Mallophora and related asilid genera in North America (Diptera: Asilidae). - University of California Publications in Entomology 36: 43-100, 4 pls.; Berkeley - Los Angeles [key]. Schaefer, K.F. (1968): The Asilinae (Diptera, Asilidae) of Oklahoma. - Proceedings of the Oklahoma Acadademy of Science 47: 114-124; Norman [key]. Artigas, J.N. & Angulo, A.O. (1980): Revision del genero Mallophora Macquart por sistematica alfa y taxonomia numérica (Diptera - Asilidae). - Gayana. Zoologia. Universidad de Concepcion, Instituto Central de Biologia 43: 182 pp.; Concepcion.

Nearctic species:

Mallophora atra Macquart, 1834

Mallophora bomboides (Wiedemann, 1828)

Mallophora fautrix Osten-Sacken, 1887

Mallophora leschenaultii Macquart, 1838

Mallophora orcina (Wiedemann, 1828)

Mallophora thompsoni Artigas & Angulo, 1980

Mallophora orcina (Wiedemann, 1828)

- male -

- female -

Key to the species

Founded on: Artigas, J.N. & Angulo, A.O. (1980): Revision del genero Mallophora Macquart por sistematica alfa y taxonomia numérica (Diptera - Asilidae). - Gayana. Zoologia. Universidad de Concepcion, Instituto Central de Biologia 43: 182 pp.; Concepcion. [English translation by Baldomero Villegas, amended]

	Hind tibiae in lateral view, with hairs that increase in length toward the basal third (similar to Fig. 10, Artigas & Angulo, 1980); hairs of the basal half are all white and the rest are dark-greyish. Head with abundant yellowish white hairs. Abdomen with sparse white hair only, mid-tibiae and hind femora with black hair. Hind tarsomeres with dark-greyish hair, dorsum of each tarsomere with white erect hair (female unknown) (Fig. 1, Artigas & Angulo, 1980) . . . . . Mallophora thompsoni Artigas & Angulo, 1980 [FL?, Neotropical region]
	Other combination of characters.

	Abdominal tergites with hair exclusively black; there could be a few lemon-yellowish hairs on the last tergites especially on the side.
	Abdominal tergites with hair of different color combinations.

	Scutellum with yellow hair. Tibiae and tarsomeres only with black hair . . . . . Mallophora leschenaultii Macquart, 1838 [TX, Neotropical region]
	Scutellum with black hair . . . . . Mallophora atra Macquart, 1834 [FL, MN?, Neotropical region]

	Abdominal tergites, at least tergit 2 and following, covered with whitish-yellow to reddish hairs uniform in density and color; or hair yellow on basal tergites and hair reddish on apical three or four tergites. As an exception, all hairs could be black . . . . . Mallophora fautrix Osten-Sacken, 1887 [MEX, SIL, VER, DUR, GUY, NV, TX, AZ, CA, CO?, NM, UT]
	Other combination of characters.

	White hair on abdomen found in one area, in strips or in spots, similar to the color of the hair on the scutellum . . . . . Mallophora bomboides (Wiedemann, 1828) [GA, FL, MS, NC, SC, FL, MEX?]
	Abdomen without white hair; with yellow hair as that of scutellum in diverse combinations with black and reddish . . . . . Mallophora orcina (Wiedemann, 1828) [GA, IN, OH, WV, VA, MD, KY, TN, AL, FL, SC, NC, AZ, NM, TX, OK, AR, LA, MS, AR, KS]