Biology:Lecania (fly)
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Short description: Genus of flies
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Asilidae |
| Genus: | Lecania Macquart, 1839 |
Lecania is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about five described species in Lecania.[1][2]
Species
These five species belong to the genus Lecania:
- Lecania boraceae Carrera, 1958 c g
- Lecania ctesicles (Walker, 1851) c g
- Lecania femorata Macquart, 1838 c g
- Lecania leucopyga (Wiedemann, 1828) c g
- Lecania tabescens Rondani, 1875 c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[3] c = Catalogue of Life,[1] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net
References
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.
- 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/.
- "Diptera.info". https://diptera.info/.
Wikidata ☰ Q20987188 entry
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