Maira nychthemera Wulp, 1872

Yatoo, Suhaib Firdous, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Pillai, Kavya G. & Cohen, Chris M., 2024, Catalog of the Robber Flies of India (Diptera: Asilidae), Zootaxa 5509 (1), pp. 1-88 : 75

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5509.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13848453
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scientific name	Maira nychthemera Wulp, 1872
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Maira nychthemera Wulp, 1872 View in CoL

Maira nychthemera Wulp, 1872: 208 View in CoL . Type locality: Indonesia (Java; Sulawesi) [Syntypes ♂, ♀, RMNH].

World distribution: Borneo, Indonesia [not India] ( Wulp 1872: 210; Oldroyd 1975: 114).

Note: No specimen base to confirm distribution in India. The species is excluded from the Indian fauna based on the conclusion of Oldroyd (1975: 114) that existing Indian records were based solely on the speculation by Lal (1960: 67).