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Blepharepium Rondani, 1848
[Dasypogoninae: Blepharepiini]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
typ.loc.          

Description: Rondani, A.C. (1848): Esame di varie specie d'insetti ditteri brasiliana. - Studi Entom. 1: 63-112 [89]; Torino.
Type species: Blepharepium luridum Rondani, 1848: 89
Literature: Curran, C.H. (1934): The families and genera of North American Diptera. - New York: 512 pp. (166-184) [key]. Papavero, N. & Bernardi, N. (1973): Studies of Asilidae (Diptera) systematics and evolution. III. Tribe Blepharepiini (Dasypogoninae). - Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 24: 163-209; Sao Paulo [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Blepharepium priapus Papavero & Bernardi, 1973
  2. Blepharepium sonorensis Papavero & Bernardi, 1973

Blepharepium sonorensis Papavero & Bernardi, 1973

- male -

dorsal view   lateral view
head dorsal   head lateral
head lateral   head frontal
antenna   postpedicel
scutellum dorsal   wing
wing   wing
wing   wing
hind tarsi ventral

- female -

dorsal view   lateral view
dorsolateral view


Key to the species

Founded on: Papavero, N. & Bernardi, N. (1973): Studies of Asilidae (Diptera) systematics and evolution. III. Tribe Blepharepiini (Dasypogoninae). - Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 24: 163-209; Sao Paulo [amended]

1 Male genitalia: Hypandrium broad. Gonocoxite apically pointed. (Papavero & Bernardi: Figs 7-9, p. 176) . . . . . Blepharepium sonorensis Papavero & Bernardi, 1973 [AZ, UT, NM, TX, CA, MEX, SON, NLE]  
- Male genitalia: Hypandrium norrow. Gonocoxite apically truncated. (Papavero & Bernardi: Figs 35-37, p. 189) . . . . . Blepharepium priapus Papavero & Bernardi, 1973 [AZ]  

 

 

 

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