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Ommatiinae
Ommatius *

Ommatius Wiedemann, 1821
[Ommatiinae]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
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Description: Wiedemann, C.R.W. (1821): Diptera exotica. Part 1. - Kiliae (Kiel): 244 pp., 2 pls. [213].
Type species: Asilus marginellus Fabricius, 1781: 464
Literature: Curran, C.H. (1934): The families and genera of North American Diptera. - New York: 512 pp. (166-184) [key]. Wilcox, J. (1936): New Ommatius with a key to the species (Diptera, Asilidae). - Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 31: 172-177; New York - Lancaster [key]. Bullington, S.W. & Lavigne, R.J. (1984): Review of the genus Ommatius Wiedemann (Diptera: Asilidae) in eastern United States with descriptions of five new species. - Annals of the Entomological Society of America 77: 372-392; Columbus [key]. Scarbrough, A.G. (1990): Revision of the New World Ommatius Wiedemann (Diptera: Asilidae). I. the pumilus species group. - Transactions of the American Entomological Society 116(1): 65-102; Philadelphia [key].

Nearctic species:

  1. Ommatius baboquivari Wilcox, 1936
  2. Ommatius beameri Wilcox, 1936
  3. Ommatius bromleyi Pritchard, 1935
  4. Ommatius floridensis Bullington & Lavigne, 1984
  5. Ommatius gemma Brimley, 1928
  6. Ommatius maculatus Banks, 1911
  7. Ommatius oklahomensis Bullington & Lavigne, 1984
  8. Ommatius ouachitensis Bullington & Lavigne, 1984
  9. Ommatius parvulus Schaeffer, 1916
  10. Ommatius pretiosus Banks, 1911
  11. Ommatius texanus Bullington & Lavigne, 1984
  12. Ommatius tibialis Say, 1823
  13. Ommatius wilcoxi Bullington & Lavigne, 1984

Ommatius species

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