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Stichopogoninae
Lasiopogon
Lissoteles
Stichopogon
Townsendia *

Townsendia Williston, 1895
[Stichopogoninae]

Neotropical Nearctic Palaearctic Afrotropical Oriental Australian & Oceania
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Description: Williston, S.W. (1895): Two remarkable new genera of Diptera. - Kansas University Quarterly 4: 107-109 [107].
Type species: Townsendia minuta Williston, 1895: 108
Literature: Martin, C.H. (1966): The genus Townsendia Williston in Mexico (Diptera: Asilidae). - Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 39: 542-551; Manhattan - Lawrence [key]. Scarbrough, A.G. & Norden, A. & Krombein, K.V. (1995): A new species of Townsendia Williston (Diptera: Asilidae) from Florida with notes on its association with Perdita graenicheri Timberlake (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). - Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 97(3): 689-694; Washington.

Nearctic species:

  1. Townsendia albomacula Martin, 1966
  2. Townsendia arenicola Scarbrough, 1995
  3. Townsendia dilata Martin, 1966
  4. Townsendia niger Back, 1909
  5. Townsendia pulcherrima Back, 1909

Townsendia albomacula Martin, 1966

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dorsal view   lateral view
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