Afrotropical Asilidae species catalog
Species catalog of 1,703 valid Afrotropical Asilidae species (1,991 names including 241 synonyms, 13 homonyms, 32 nomina nuda, and 2 unavailable names). There are 27 species that have not, for a variety of reasons, been assigned to any Afrotropical genus (Oldroyd 1980: 373 lists 14 unplaced species, Londt and Dikow 2017: 48 list 22 unplaced species). In all instances, the type specimens require re-examination and at least some of these appear to have been lost. A search by subfamily "unplaced" will show these species below.
This online catalog is based on the Afrotropical catalog by Oldroyd (1980), was kept up-to-date by Jason Londt until 2016, and is now updated by Torsten Dikow.
Last updated on 18 Nov 2020.
Displaying 1703 records.|
Philodicus fraternus (Wiedemann, 1819: 33) valid
Asilinae
type locality: 'Guinea':
type depository: NHMW ZMHB ?ZMUC
junior synonym(s): Trupanea limbata Macquart, 1838, Asilus turinus Walker, 1849 distribution: Benin, Chad, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Guinea
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Philodicus furunculus Blasdale, 1957: 146 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sudan:
type depository: OXUM
distribution: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Philodicus gracilis Wulp, 1899: 92 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Yemen:
type depository: OXUM
distribution: Yemen
distribution notes: questionable in Namibia occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Philodicus ludens (Wiedemann, 1828: 572) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sudan:
type depository:
distribution: Sudan
original description: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14505057 article original: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14504485 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Philodicus nigrescens Ricardo, 1921: 182 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Gambia, Malawi, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Philodicus ocellatus Becker, 1922: 66 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sudan:
type depository: NHMW
distribution: Sudan
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Philodicus pallidus Blasdale, 1957: 139 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Somalia:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Somalia
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Philodicus palustris Blasdale, 1957: 142 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sudan:
type depository: OXUM
distribution: Sudan
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Philodicus pavesii Bezzi, 1892: 185 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Somalia:
type depository:
distribution: Somalia
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Philodicus robustus Blasdale, 1957: 143 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sudan:
type depository: OXUM
distribution: Sudan
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Philodicus swynnertoni Hobby, 1933: 109 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Zimbabwe:
type depository: OXUM
distribution: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Zimbabwe
article most recent: https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.056.0317 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Philodicus temerarius (Walker, 1851: 121) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Senegal:
type depository: BMNH
junior synonym(s): Philodicus obscuripes Loew, 1858, Apoclea infuscata Wulp, 1889, Alcimus aethiopicus Bigot, 1891, Rhadiurgus notatus Bigot, 1891, Philodicus walkeri Ricardo, 1921, Alcimus biseriatus Curran, 1927 distribution: Senegal
distribution notes: widespread in western to eastern Africa, Congo Basin occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Philodicus tenuipes Loew, 1858: 361 valid
Asilinae
type locality: South Africa:
type depository:
distribution: South Africa
original description: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43967205 article original: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43966916 article most recent: https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.056.0317 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Philodicus yirolensis Blasdale, 1957: 142 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sudan:
type depository: OXUM
distribution: Gambia, Sudan
distribution notes: questionable in Gambia occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Pilophoneus analogos Londt, 2014: 791 valid
Laphriinae
type locality: Zambia:
type depository: BMSA
distribution: Zambia
article original: https://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.022.0419 article most recent: https://doi.org/10.4001/003.022.0419 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Pilophoneus krugeri (Oldroyd, 1974: 93) valid
Laphriinae
type locality: South Africa:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: South Africa
article original: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.437797 article most recent: https://doi.org/10.4001/003.022.0419 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Proagonistes africanus (Ricardo, 1925: 278) valid
Laphriinae
type locality: Malawi:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Mozambique, Malawi
article original: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222932508633204 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Proagonistes apicalis (Curran, 1927: 6) valid
Laphriinae
type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo:
type depository: AMNH
distribution: Congo, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Proagonistes athletes Speiser, 1907: 356 valid
Laphriinae
type locality: Tanzania:
type depository: ZSMC
distribution: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Proagonistes austeni Bromley, 1930: 221 valid
Laphriinae
type locality: Malawi:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Zimbabwe, Malawi
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |