Psilocurus

Psilocurus is a genus of robber flies in the family of Asilidae. There are about 14 described species in Psilocurus.^[1][2][3][4]

Psilocurus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Tribe:	Laphystiini
Genus:	Psilocurus Loew, 1874

Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Psilocurus:

• Psilocurus birdi Curran, 1931
• Psilocurus blascoi Weinberg & Bachli, 2001
• Psilocurus camposi Curran, 1931
• Psilocurus caudatus Williston, 1901
• Psilocurus hypopygialis (Paramonov, 1930)
• Psilocurus modestus (Williston, 1893)
• Psilocurus negrus Lehr, 1974
• Psilocurus nudiusculus Loew, 1874
• Psilocurus pallustris Hull, 1961
• Psilocurus puellus Bromley, 1934
• Psilocurus pygmaeus Hull, 1961
• Psilocurus reinhardi Bromley, 1951
• Psilocurus tibialis Hull, 1961
• † Paraclia tarsalis (Statz, 1940)

References

1. "Psilocurus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Psilocurus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Psilocurus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. Dikow, Torsten (2019). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (319). hdl:2246/5949.
• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.
• Geller-Grimm, Fritz (2004). "A world catalogue of the genera of the family Asilidae (Diptera)". Studia Dipterologica. 10.