Biology:Holcocephala

Short description: Genus of flies

Holcocephala
Holcocephala abdominalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Tribe:	Damalini
Genus:	Holcocephala

Holcocephala is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 40 described species in Holcocephala.

Holcocephala fusca

Species

These 40 species belong to the genus Holcocephala:

• Holcocephala abdominalis (Say, 1823) ^{i c g b}
• Holcocephala affinis Bellardi, 1861 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala agalla Walker, 1849 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala analis (Macquart, 1846) ^c
• Holcocephala bechyneorum Ayala, 1982 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala calva (Loew, 1872) ^{i c g b}
• Holcocephala coriacea (Wiedemann, 1821) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala curvicosta Carrera, 1958 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala deltoidea (Bellardi, 1861) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala dimidiata Hermann, 1924 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala divisa (Walker, 1860) ^c
• Holcocephala fernandezi Ayala, 1982 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala fimbriata Hermann, 1924 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala fusca Bromley, 1951 ^{i c g b}
• Holcocephala indigena Scarbrough & Perez-Gelabert, 2006 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala inornata (Rondani, 1848) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala luteipes Hermann, 1924 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala macula (Rondani, 1848) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala matteii Ayala, 1982 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala minuta (Bellardi, 1861) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala mogiana Carrera, 1955 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala monticola Ayala, 1982 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala nigrita (Fabricius, 1805) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala nitida (Wiedemann, 1830) ^c
• Holcocephala nodosipes (Enderlein, 1914) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala obscuripennis Enderlein, 1914 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala oculata (Fabricius, 1805) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala pardalina Hermann, 1924 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala pectinata Carrera, 1955 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala pennipes Hermann, 1924 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala peruviana Hermann, 1924 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala rufithorax (Wiedemann, 1828) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala scopifer (Schiner, 1868) ^c
• Holcocephala spinipes Hermann, 1924 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala stylata Pritchard, 1938 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala tijucana (Carrera, 1958) ^{c g}
• Holcocephala uruguayensis Lynch Arribalzaga, 1882 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala vallestris Ayala, 1982 ^{c g}
• Holcocephala vicina (Macquart, 1838) ^c
• Holcocephala vittata (Walker, 1836) ^{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. 
• 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 2018-03-15. 
• 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 2018-03-15. 
• "Diptera.info". https://diptera.info/. Retrieved 2018-03-15. 

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