Townsendia (fly)

For the flowering plant genus, see Townsendia (plant).

Townsendia is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 13 described species in Townsendia.

Townsendia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Stichopogoninae
Genus:	Townsendia Williston, 1895

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Townsendia:

• Townsendia albomacula Martin, 1966 ^{i c g b}
• Townsendia araguensis Kaletta, 1976 ^{c g}
• Townsendia arenicola Scarbrough, 1995 ^{c g b}
• Townsendia argyrata Curran, 1926 ^{c g}
• Townsendia dilata Martin, 1966 ^{i c g}
• Townsendia fiebrigii Bezzi, 1909 ^{c g}
• Townsendia gracilis Martin, 1966 ^{c g}
• Townsendia minuta Williston, 1895 ^{i c g}
• Townsendia nemacula Martin, 1966 ^{c g}
• Townsendia nigra Back, 1909 ^{i c g b}
• Townsendia podexargenteus Enderlein, 1914 ^{c g}
• Townsendia pulcherrima Back, 1909 ^{i c g}
• Townsendia triangulata Martin, 1966 ^{c g}

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

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Bromley, S.W. (1950). "Florida Asilidae (Diptera) with descriptions of one new species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 43 (2): 227–239. doi:10.1093/aesa/43.2.227.
• Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/5949. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
• Hull, F.M. (1962). "Robber flies of the world". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 224.
• McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.

External links

• Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
• "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-04-22.