Psilonyx

Psilonyx
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Leptogastrinae
Genus:	Psilonyx Aldrich, 1923

Psilonyx is a genus of robber flies (insects in the family Asilidae). There are about 14 described species in Psilonyx.

Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Psilonyx:

• Psilonyx annulatus (Say, 1823) ^{i c g b}
• Psilonyx annuliventris Hsia, 1949 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx arawak Farr, 1963 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx dorsiniger Zhang & Yang, 2009 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx flavican Shi, 1993 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx flavicoxa Zhang & Yang, 2009 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx hsiai Shi, 1993 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx humeralis Hsia, 1949 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx macropygialis (Williston, 1901) ^{c g}
• Psilonyx magnicauda (Curran, 1934) ^{c g}
• Psilonyx migricoxa Hsia, 1949 ^g
• Psilonyx minimensis (Matsumura, 1916) ^{c g}
• Psilonyx nigricoxa Hsia, 1949 ^{c g}
• Psilonyx zephyrus Scarbrough & Page, 2005 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (319). hdl:2246/5949.
• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.
• Geller-Grimm, Fritz (2004). "A world catalogue of the genera of the family Asilidae (Diptera)". Studia Dipterologica. 10.