Trigonomiminae
Bromleyus
Haplopogon
Holcocephala *
Orrhodops
Holcocephala Jaennicke, 1867
[Trigonomiminae]
[Trigonomiminae]
| Neotropical | Nearctic | Palaearctic | Afrotropical | Oriental | Australian & Oceania |
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| Description: | Jaennicke, J.F. (1867): Neue exotische Dipteren. - Abhandlungen der senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 6: 311-405 (354-366), pl. 44 [359]; Frankfurt a.M. |
| Type species: | Discocephala rufiventris Macquart, 1838: 50 (= abdominalis) |
| Synonyms: | Discocephala Macquart, 1838; Holocephala: Williston, 1891 |
| Literature: | Hermann, F. (1926): Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Asiliden. Der Verwandtschaftskreis des Gen. Holocephala Jännicke. - Verhandlungen der zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 74-75 (1924-25): 153-191; Wien [key]. Curran, C.H. (1934): The families and genera of North American Diptera. - New York: 512 pp. (166-184) [key]. Pritchard, A.E. (1938): Synopsis of North and Central American Holococephala with a description of a new species (Diptera: Asilidae). - Journal of the New York Entomological Society 46: 11-21; New York [key]. |
Nearctic species:
Holcocephala abdominalis (Say, 1823)
- male -
- female -
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