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Neodiogmites Carrera, 1949, a rare Neotropical genus of Asilidae, is revised and divided into three species groups: (1) the melanogaster group, including N. carrerai Artigas & Papavero, N. melanogaster (Wiedemann, 1821), N. tenebrosus... more
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Asilidae is one of the most diverse families among Diptera, with 7500 species described in 555 genera (Pape et al. 2011). According to Ibáñez-Bernal (2017), 481 species of Asilidae occur in Mexico, but the number is actually much higher... more
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      Insect TaxonomyDipteraAsilidae
Archilestris chamelensis sp. nov. from Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico is described and illustrated. The number of species of Archilestris in Mexico is raised to two, and to six for the Americas. A tentative key to the species of North and... more
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      Insect TaxonomyMexicoDipteraAsilidae
When having investigated an experimental triticale field (Nyírlugos, in the north-eastern part of Hungary) in the June of 2005, the author observed and collected Machimus annulipes (Asilidae) in great number. The rubber fly attacked and... more
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      Agricultural EntomologyCereal cropsNatural enemiesAsilidae
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      Biological ControlDipteraAsilidae
Neodiogmites Carrera, 1949, a rare Neotropical genus of Asilidae, is revised and divided into three species groups: (1) the melanogaster group, including N. carrerai Artigas & Papavero, N. melanogaster (Wiedemann, 1821), N. tenebrosus... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyZoologyBiologyMedicine
Robber flies are one of the most diverse groups of flies with over 7,000 described species in 530 genera around the world. According to recent catalogues, in Mexico 462 species, in 94 genera and 11 subfamilies have been recorded. However,... more
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      TaxonomyDipteraAsilidae
Resumen: Se registra por primera vez al asílido Nevadasilus blantoni (Bromley, 1951) para México. Hasta ahora sólo se conocía de Nevada, Estados Unidos, con lo que aquí se amplía sustancialmente su distribución conocida con el hallazgo de... more
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      Insect TaxonomyAsilidae
A checklist of the ‘lower Brachycera’ of Finland is presented. This part of the complete checklist of Finnish Diptera covers the families Acroceridae, Asilidae, Athericidae, Bombyliidae, Mythicomyiidae, Rhagioni- dae, Scenopinidae,... more
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      FinlandFaunisticsDipteraAsilidae
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      TaxonomyBiodiversityMexicoDiptera
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We provide new distribution records for 19 species of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of Mexico based on the examination of 221 specimens from Mexican entomological collections.
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      BiodiversityMexicoDipteran TaxonomyAsilidae