Biology:Maira (fly)

Short description: Genus of flies

Maira
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Genus:	Maira

Maira is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 50 described species in Maira.

Species

These 57 species belong to the genus Maira:

• Maira abscissa (Walker, 1860) ^{c g}
• Maira aenea (Fabricius, 1805) ^{c g}
• Maira albifacies Wulp, 1872 ^{c g}
• Maira appendiculata Bezzi, 1928 ^{c g}
• Maira aterrima Hermann, 1914 ^{c g}
• Maira auribarbis (Macquart, 1848) ^c
• Maira aurifacies (Macquart, 1848) ^c
• Maira bicolor Joseph & Parui, 1987 ^{c g}
• Maira bisnigra Bigot, 1878 ^{c g}
• Maira calopogon (Bigot, 1878) ^{c g}
• Maira cambodgiensis Bigot, 1878 ^{c g}
• Maira claripennis (Le Guillou, 1842) ^{c g}
• Maira compta Walker, 1862 ^{c g}
• Maira condecora (Walker, 1862) ^{c g}
• Maira conveniens (Walker, 1861) ^{c g}
• Maira delfinadoi Joseph & Parui, 1981 ^{c g}
• Maira elegans (Walker, 1855) ^{c g}
• Maira elysiaca Osten Sacken, 1881 ^{c g}
• Maira flagellata (Walker, 1862) ^{c g}
• Maira germana (Walker, 1858) ^{c g}
• Maira gloriosa (Walker, 1858) ^{c g}
• Maira gracilicornis Meijere, 1914 ^{c g}
• Maira hirta Meijere, 1913 ^{c g}
• Maira hispidella Wulp, 1872 ^{c g}
• Maira indiana Joseph & Parui, 1987 ^{c g}
• Maira kollari (Doleschall, 1857) ^{c g}
• Maira lauta Wulp, 1885 ^{c g}
• Maira leei (Paramonov, 1958) ^{c g}
• Maira limbidorsum Bezzi, 1928 ^{c g}
• Maira longicornis Meijere, 1913 ^{c g}
• Maira longirostrata Bromley, 1935 ^{c g}
• Maira nieifacies (Macquart, 1850) ^{c g}
• Maira nigrithorax Wulp, 1872 ^{c g}
• Maira nigropilosa Meijere, 1913 ^{c g}
• Maira niveifacies (Macquart, 1850) ^{c g}
• Maira nychthemera Wulp, 1872 ^{c g}
• Maira occulta Wulp, 1872 ^{c g}
• Maira paradisiaca (Walker, 1859) ^{c g}
• Maira paria Bigot, 1878 ^{c g}
• Maira placens (Walker, 1859) ^{c g}
• Maira pseudoindiana Joseph & Parui, 1995 ^{c g}
• Maira requista (Walker, 1859) ^{c g}
• Maira setipes (Walker, 1862) ^{c g}
• Maira smaragdina Bigot, 1878 ^{c g}
• Maira sodalis (Walker, 1858) ^{c g}
• Maira splendida (Guerin Meneville, 1831) ^{c g}
• Maira superba Meijere, 1913 ^{c g}
• Maira tincta Meijere, 1913 ^{c g}
• Maira tomentosa Wulp, 1872 ^{c g}
• Maira tuberculata Wulp, 1872 ^{c g}
• Maira vanderwulpi Meijere, 1913 ^{c g}
• Maira varians Ricardo, 1929 ^{c g}
• Maira villipes (Doleschall, 1857) ^{c g}
• Maira whitneyi Curran, 1936 ^{c g}
• Maira willowsi Curran, 1936 ^{c g}
• Maira wollastoni Austen, 1915 ^{c g}
• Maira xizangensis Shi, 1995 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC. 
• Bromley, S.W. (1950). "Florida Asilidae (Diptera) with descriptions of one new species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 43 (2): 227–239. doi:10.1093/aesa/43.2.227. 
• Charles, H. Curran (1934). The families and genera of North American Diptera. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825. 
• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5949. Retrieved 2018-04-22. 
• Hull, F.M. (1962). "Robber flies of the world". Bulletin of the United States National Museum 224. 
• McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J. et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253. 

External links

• Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. http://asiloidflies.si.edu/. Retrieved 2018-04-22. 
• "Diptera.info". https://diptera.info/. Retrieved 2018-04-22. 

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