Agkistrocerus

Genus of flies

Agkistrocerus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tabanidae
Subfamily: Tabaninae
Tribe: Tabanini
Genus: Agkistrocerus
Philip, 1941[1]
Type species
Tabanus megerlei
Wiedemann, 1828[2]

Agkistrocerus is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.[3][4]

Species

  • Agkistrocerus aurantiacus (Bellardi, 1859)[5]
  • Agkistrocerus finitimus (Stone, 1938)[6]
  • Agkistrocerus megerlei (Wiedemann, 1828)[2]

References

  1. ^ Philip, C.B. (1941). "Comments on the supra-specific categories of Nearctic Tabanidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 73: 2–14.
  2. ^ a b Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1828). Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Hamm: Zweiter Theil. Schulz. pp. xxxii + 608 pp., 7 pls.
  3. ^ Moucha, J. (1976). "Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements. 7: 1–320. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  4. ^ Burger, J. F. (1995). "Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) in North America north of Mexico". International Contributions on Entomology. 1 (1). Associated Publishers: 1–100.
  5. ^ Bellardi, L. (1859). Saggio di ditterologia messicana. Parte I. Torino: Stamperia Reale. pp. 80 pp., 2 pls.
  6. ^ Stone, A. (1938). "The horseflies of the subfamily Tabanidae of the Nearctic Region". U.S. Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publications. 305: 171.
Taxon identifiers
Agkistrocerus


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