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Genus of flies
Taracticus is a genus of
robber flies in the family
Asilidae . There are about 16 described species in Taracticus .
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Taracticus octopunctatus
Species
These 16 species belong to the genus Taracticus :
Taracticus aciculatus Pritchard, 1938
Taracticus argentifacies James, 1953
Taracticus dimidiatus (Macquart, 1847)
Taracticus geniculatus (Bigot, 1878)
Taracticus guerrerensis Pritchard, 1938
Taracticus nigrimystaceus Williston, 1901
Taracticus nigripes Williston, 1901
Taracticus octopunctatus (Say, 1823)
Taracticus paulus Pritchard, 1938
Taracticus ruficaudus Curran, 1930
Taracticus rufipennis (Macquart, 1847)
Taracticus similis Williston, 1901
Taracticus vitripennis (Bellardi, 1861)
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Psilocephala hypogaea (Cockerell, 1909)
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Taracticus contusus Cockerell, 1910
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Taracticus renovatus Cockerell, 1911
References
Further reading
Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (319).
hdl :
2246/5949 .
McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981).
Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I . Agriculture Canada, Research Branch.
ISBN
978-0-660-10731-8 .
Geller-Grimm, Fritz (2004).
"A world catalogue of the genera of the family Asilidae (Diptera)" . Studia Dipterologica . 10 .
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