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.|
Promachus snowi (Hobby, 1940: 139) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Zimbabwe:
type depository:
distribution: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus sokotrae Ricardo, 1903: 362 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Yemen (Socotra Island):
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Yemen
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Promachus speiseri (Hobby, 1936: 248) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Cameroon:
type depository: OXUM ZMHB
distribution: Nigeria, Cameroon
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus subtilis Bromley, 1935: 404 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo:
type depository: MRAC
distribution: Democratic Republic of the Congo
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Promachus tattaguina Tomasovic, 2012: 105 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Senegal:
type depository: MRAC
distribution: Senegal
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus tewfiki Efflatoun, 1929: 70 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sudan:
type depository:
distribution: Sudan
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Promachus transvaalensis Hobby, 1933: 226 valid
Asilinae
type locality: South Africa:
type depository:
distribution: South Africa
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus trichozonus Loew, 1858: 359 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Guinea:
type depository: ZMHB
junior synonym(s): Bactria hastatus Hobby, 1936 distribution: Benin, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana
original description: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43967203 article original: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43966916 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Promachus turinusa (Walker, 1849: 407) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Sierra Leone:
type depository:
distribution: Sierra Leone
original description: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38706118 article original: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/119308 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus ugandiensis Ricardo, 1920: 181 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Uganda:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Malawi, Uganda
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Promachus vagator (Wiedemann, 1828: 492) valid
Asilinae
type locality: South Africa:
type depository: ZMHB
distribution: South Africa
original description: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14504977 article original: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14504485 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus venatrix (Hobby, 1936: 239) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Kenya:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Kenya
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Promachus versicolor (Hobby, 1936: 243) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Zambia:
type depository: OXUM
distribution: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Zambia
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus wollastoni (Hobby, 1936: 239) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Uganda:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Kenya, Uganda
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Promachus xanthotrichus Bezzi, 1908: 378 valid
Asilinae
type locality: Gabon:
type depository: ISNB MRAC
distribution: Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Gabon
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Promachus zenkeri (Hobby, 1936: 246) valid
Asilinae
type locality: Cameroon:
type depository: ZMHB
distribution: Cameroon
occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Prytanomyia kochi (Lindner, 1973: 74) valid
Laphriinae
original combination: Laphystia kochi (comb. nov. sensu Londt and Dikow 2017: 42) type locality: Namibia: Sovakopmund (= Swakopmund) (view on map 22°40'58''S 014°31'59''E)
type depository: SMNS-H1M (unique specimen identifier SMNS-EDI/14994/2015)
junior synonym(s): Prytania albida Oldroyd, 1974 distribution: Angola, Namibia
treatment most recent at Plazi TreatmentBank: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/52D883AA-3C99-688D-3AD9-AEFBECB16D52 article original: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.437867 article most recent: https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.58.13294 occurrence records at GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/9530280 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) observation records in nature at iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1145249-Prytanomyia-kochi |
Pycnomerinx cogani Oldroyd, 1974: 62 valid
Stenopogoninae
type locality: Botswana:
type depository: BMNH
junior synonym(s): Pycnomerinx moremensis Oldroyd, 1974 distribution: Namibia, South Africa, Botswana
article original: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.437797 article most recent: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA03040798_331 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
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Pycnomerinx gweta Oldroyd, 1974: 65 valid
Stenopogoninae
type locality: Botswana:
type depository: BMNH
distribution: Namibia, Botswana
article original: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.437797 article most recent: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA03040798_331 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |
Pycnomerinx rhodesii (Ricardo, 1925: 274) valid
Stenopogoninae
type locality: Zimbabwe:
type depository: BMNH
junior synonym(s): Pycnomerinx annulatus Hull, 1962 distribution: Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
article original: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222932508633204 article most recent: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA03040798_331 occurrence records at asiloidflies.si.edu (if available) |