Ommatiinae Hardy, 1927

Scarbrough, A. G., 2010, An overview of the Afrotropical Ommatiinae (Diptera: Asilidae) with a key to genera, Zootaxa 2540, pp. 1-47 : 3

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1175-5326

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5310798

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scientific name

Ommatiinae Hardy, 1927
status

 

Subfamily: Ommatiinae Hardy, 1927 View in CoL View at ENA

Diagnosis. Antenna with long slender stylus apically ( Figs. 1–6); stylus setae apically and ventrally, latter setae usually aligned in rows; face evenly contoured from antennae to epistomal margin, usually visible only on lower extremes in lateral view; postmetacoxal area sclerotized, forming a complete bridge behind metathoracic coxa; cell r 1 stalked apically, veins R 1 and R 2+3 fused before costa ( Figs. 24, 30, 41, 52, 58, 67, 73, 83, 89).

Distribution. Widespread, absent in Europe and below 30 o north and south latitude. Twelve world genera with nine in the Afrotropical Region.

Hardy, G. H. (1927) Further notes on a new classification of Australian Robberflies (Diptera: Asilidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 52 (3), 387 - 398. Sydney.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae