Asilus

Genus of insects

Asilus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Diptera
Family:  | Asilidae
Subfamily:  | Asilinae
Genus:  | Asilus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Asilus crabroniformis

Linnaeus, 1758

Diversity
at least 210 species

Asilus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 150 described species in Asilus.[1][2][3]

## See also

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* List of Asilus species

## References

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1. ^ "Asilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
2. ^ "Asilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
3. ^ "Asilus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

## Further reading

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* 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.

## External links

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* Media related to Asilus at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Asilus|

* Wikidata: Q4034466
* Wikispecies: Asilus
* BOLD: 2210
* BugGuide: 9340
* CoL: 33VS
* EoL: 54633
* EPPO: 1ASILG
* Fauna Europaea: 59605
* Fauna Europaea (new): 626abb95-fbe7-478e-82e7-c07475275de8
* GBIF: 1444802
* iNaturalist: 61609
* IRMNG: 1260563
* ITIS: 133485
* NBN: NBNSYS0000130605
* NCBI: 219504
* Open Tree of Life: 443520
* Paleobiology Database: 76779
* Plazi: F6AF0916-481E-23B4-E559-99FE1035824B
* WoRMS: 865816
* ZooBank: 17311CD2-41D5-401C-93A7-FB523B70679B

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