Maira (fly)
| 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.[1][2]
Species
[edit]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,[3] c = Catalogue of Life,[1] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Browse Maira". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ a b "Maira". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-22.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. hdl: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
[edit]- Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-04-22.
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