Laphriinae

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Laphriinae
Hyperechia marshalli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Asilidae
Subfamily: Laphriinae

Laphriinae is a subfamily of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are more than 110 genera and 1,000 described species in Laphriinae.[1][2][3][4] Larvae of the genus Hyperechia are known to grow inside the cells of Xylocopa bees, feeding on their larvae.[5]

Smeryngolaphria numitor
Atomosia melanopogon

Laphriinae genera[edit]

Genera in the subfamily include:

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Laphriinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  2. ^ Dikow, Torsten (2019). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  3. ^ Laphriinae. Fauna Europaea.
  4. ^ Poulton, Edward B. (1924). "VI. The relation between the larvae of the Asilid genus Hyperechia (Laphriinae) and those of Xylocopid bees". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 72 (1–2): 121–133. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1924.tb03352.x.
  5. ^ a b c d Mohammadi, Rahman; Talebi, Ali Asghar; Fathipour, Yaghoub; Kazerani, Farzaneh (2018-09-01). "(PDF) Study of the genera Laphria Meigen, 1803 and Pogonosoma Rondani, 1856 (Diptera: Asilidae: Laphriinae) in Iran, with two new species records for the country". Journal of Crop Protection. 7 (4). CASRP; Center of Advanced Scientific Research and Publications: 429–435. ISSN 2251-9041. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  6. ^ Dikow, Torsten; Dubus, Meliah (5 May 2023). "A review of the assassin-fly genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 with the description of a new species (Insecta, Diptera, Asilidae)". African Invertebrates. 64 (2): 165–206. doi:10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.104283.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  7. ^ a b c Londt, Jason G. H. (June 2015). "Taxonomic Observations Regarding Four Genera of Afrotropical Robber Flies, Choerades Walker, 1851, Laphria Meigen, 1803, Nannolaphria Londt, 1977 and Notiolaphria Londt, 1977, and the Description of Ericomyia gen. n. (Diptera, Asilidae, Laphriinae)". African Invertebrates. 56 (1): 191–228. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0115.
  8. ^ Londt, Jason G. H.; Dikow, Torsten (15 June 2018). "A review of the assassin-fly genus Laphyctis Loew, 1858 with descriptions of two new species (Diptera, Asilidae, Laphriinae)". African Invertebrates. 59 (1): 75–106. doi:10.3897/afrinvertebr.59.25022.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  9. ^ Londt, Jason G.H.; Dikow, Torsten (1 June 2017). "A revision of the Afrotropical genus Prytanomyia Özdikmen, 2006 (Asilidae, Laphriinae)". African Invertebrates. 58 (2): 39–52. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.58.13294.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

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