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Microstylum Macquart, 1838
[Stenopogoninae: Enigmomorphini]

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. [26]; Lille.
Type species: Dasypogon venosum Wiedemann, 1821: 215
Literature: Martin, C.H. (1960): A new species of Microstylum (Diptera: Asilidae) from Mexico. - Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 33: 44-45; Manhattan - Lawrence [key]. Papavero, N. (1971): Notes on some types of neotropical Asilidae (Diptera), with descriptions of three new species. - Papeis avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia 25: 19-29; Sao Paulo [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Microstylum galactodes Loew, 1866
  2. Microstylum morosum Loew, 1872

Microstylum magnum Bromley, 1927
[Afrotropical species]

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
head lateral   head lateral
head frontal   postpedicel
style   style
wing   wing
anatergite

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view

 

 

 

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