Scleropogon (fly)

Scleropogon
Scleropogon helvolus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Subfamily:	Stenopogoninae
Genus:	Scleropogon Loew, 1866

Scleropogon is a genus of robber flies (insects in the family Asilidae). There are about 17 described species in Scleropogon.

Species

These 17 species belong to the genus Scleropogon:

• Scleropogon bradleyi (Bromley, 1937) ^{i c g b}
• Scleropogon cinerascens (Back, 1909) ^{i c g}
• Scleropogon coyote (Bromley, 1931) ^{i c g}
• Scleropogon dispar (Bromley, 1937) ^{i c g}
• Scleropogon duncani (Bromley, 1937) ^{i b}
• Scleropogon floridensis (Bromley, 1951) ^{i c g}
• Scleropogon haigi Wilcox, 1971 ^{i c g b}
• Scleropogon helvolus Loew, 1874 ^{i c g b}
• Scleropogon huachucanus (Hardy, 1942) ^{i c g}
• Scleropogon indistinctus (Bromley, 1937) ⁱ
• Scleropogon kelloggi (Wilcox, 137) ^{i c g b}
• Scleropogon neglectus (Bromley, 1931) ^{i c g}
• Scleropogon picticornis Loew, 1866 ^{i c g b}
• Scleropogon similis Jones, 1907 ^{i c g}
• Scleropogon subulatus (Wiedemann, 1828) ^{i c g b}
• Scleropogon texanus (Bromley, 1931) ^{i b}
• Scleropogon uhleri (Banks, 1920) ^{i 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.

External links

• Media related to Scleropogon at Wikimedia Commons