Biology:Cabasa (fly)

Short description: Genus of flies

Cabasa
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Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Genus:	Cabasa

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

Species

These three species belong to the genus Cabasa:

• Cabasa glabrata (Walker, 1861) ^{c g}
• Cabasa honesta (Walker, 1858) ^{c g}
• Cabasa pulchella (Macquart, 1846) ^{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. Curran. 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/. 

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