Molobratia Hull

Young, Charles L. & Hradský, Milan M., 2008, Robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of South Korea. Parts VI – VIII. South Korean species of the Subfamilies Dasypogoninae, Dioctriinae and Trigonomiminae, Zootaxa 1876, pp. 1-18 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.184102
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5675291
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/103087A2-CF19-FFB7-FF34-FE2534234818
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scientific name	Molobratia Hull
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Genus Molobratia Hull View in CoL View at ENA

Molobratia Hull, 1958d: 251 View in CoL . Type species: Asilus teutomus Linnaeus, 1767 .

Species of the genus Molobratia View in CoL have a large spur at the tip of the fore tibia and simple ovipositor which bares no spines on the acanthophorites ( Geller-Grimm 2005). As noted by Geller-Grimm, seven of the previously recorded thirteen species ( Nagatomi et. al. 1989; Haupt & Azuma 1998) occur from the northeastern Palearctic (i.e., China, Japan and South Korea), and only one of these, M. youngi Geller-Grimm View in CoL , has been recorded from South Korea.