Catalogue of the Nearctic genera

Keys Comparison Catalogue Terminology Notes

Dasypogoninae
Blepharepiini
Blepharepium
Dasypogonini
Lestomyia
Parataracticus
Saropogon
Taracticus *
Isopogonini
Comantella
Cophura
Hodophylax
Nicocles
Omninablautus
Lastaurini
Diogmites

Taracticus Loew, 1872
[Dasypogoninae: Dasypogonini]

Neotropical	Nearctic	Palaearctic	Afrotropical	Oriental	Australian & Oceania
?	typ.loc.

Description:	Loew, H. (1872): Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. - Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 16: 49-115 (62-74) [64]; Berlin.
Type species:	Dioctria octopunctata Say, 1823: 49
Synonyms:	Dioctrodes Coquillett, 1904
Literature:	Curran, C.H. (1930): New American Asilidae (Diptera). - American Museum Novitates 425: 21 pp.; New York [key]. Pritchard, A.E. (1938): Revision of the robberfly genus Taracticus Loew with descriptions of three new species (Diptera: Asilidae). - Journal of the New York Entomological Society 46: 179-190; New York [key].

Nearctic species:

Taracticus octopunctatus (Say, 1823)

Taracticus paulus Pritchard, 1938

Taracticus ruficaudus Curran, 1930

Taracticus octopunctatus (Say, 1823)

- male -

Key to the species

Founded on: Pritchard, A.E. (1938): Revision of the robberfly genus Taracticus Loew with descriptions of three new species (Diptera: Asilidae). - Journal of the New York Entomological Society 46: 179-190; New York. [amended]

	Scutum wholly pollinose . . . . . Taracticus ruficaudus Curran, 1930 [AZ, UT, MEX, DUR]
	Scutum with bare, black vittae.

	Postpedicel over three times as long as scape and pedicel combined, the dorsal bristle just before the middle of postpedicel . . . . . Taracticus paulus Pritchard, 1938 [CA]
	Postpedicel over two and one-half times as long as scape and pedicel combined, the dorsal bristle a little beyond the middle of postpedicel . . . . . Taracticus octopunctatus (Say, 1823) (= Dioctrodes flavipes Coquillett, 1904; = Dioctria rufipes Jones, 1907) [SD, NH, MT?, FL, NE, OH, WA, MI, MD, PA]