Catalogue of the Nearctic genera

Keys Comparison Catalogue Terminology Notes

Stenopogoninae
Ceraturgini
Ceraturgus
Myelaphus *
Cyrtopogonini
Ablautus
Backomyia
Callinicus
Cyrtopogon
Eucyrtopogon
Hadrokolos
Heteropogon
Holopogon
Itolia
Metapogon
Nannocyrtopogon
Pritchardomyia
Sintoria
Wilcoxia
Enigmomorphini
Archilestris
Dicranus
Microstylum
Prolepsis
Plesiommatini
Plesiomma
Stenopogonini
Ospriocerus
Scleropogon
Stenopogon
Tillobromini
Coleomyia
Willistoninini
Willistonina

Myelaphus Bigot, 1882
[Stenopogoninae: Ceraturgini]

Neotropical	Nearctic	Palaearctic	Afrotropical	Oriental	Australian & Oceania
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Description:	Bigot, J.M.F. (1882): [Note: Description of new genus Myelaphus (Asilidae)]. - Bulletin de la Societé entomologique de France (6)2: 91 [91]; Paris.
Type species:	Myelaphus melas Bigot, 1882: 91
Remarks:	Lehr (1999) placed this taxon into the subfamily Dioctriinae.
Literature:	Adisoemarto, S. & Wood, D.M. (1975): The Nearctic species of Dioctria and six related genera (Diptera, Asilidae). - Quaestiones entomologicae. University of Alberta 11: 505-576; Edmonton [key].

Nearctic species:

Myelaphus lobicornis (Osten-Sacken, 1877)

Myelaphus melas Bigot, 1882

- female -

Key to the species

Founded on: Adisoemarto, S. & Wood, D.M. (1975): The Nearctic species of Dioctria and six related genera (Diptera, Asilidae). - Quaestiones entomologicae. University of Alberta 11: 505-576; Edmonton. [amended]

	Face reddish brown, with prominent transverse oval protuberance, just below middle, whose lower surface is sculptured with 2 or 3 curved concentric grooves. Scape, and thorax, mostly reddish in ground color . . . . . Myelaphus melas Bigot, 1882 [CA]
	Face, antennae and thorax black. Face evenly rounded, without prominent oval protuberance . . . . . Myelaphus lobicornis (Osten-Sacken, 1877) [ID, WA, OR, UT, CO, NV, CA, BCA]