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Asilidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes : Ouvrage Faisant Suite aux Oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et Partie du Cours Complet d´Histoire Naturelle Rédigé par C.S. Sonnini. 14 vols. F. Dufart, Paris.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Diptera
family
Asilidae

Name

Homonyms
Asilidae
Common names
Rovfluer in Danish
robber flies in language.
robber fly in English
roofvliegen in Dutch
beahtočurut in Northern Sami
rovflugor in Swedish
robberflies in English
roofvliegen in Dutch
rovfluer in Norwegian Bokmål
rovfluger in Nynorsk, Norwegian
rovflugor in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Grootaert, P.; De Bruyn, L.; De Meyer, M. (1991). Catalogue of the Diptera of Belgium. <em>Studiedocumenten van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen.</em> 70: 338pp.
  4. Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer).
  5. Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes : Ouvrage Faisant Suite aux Oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et Partie du Cours Complet d´Histoire Naturelle Rédigé par C.S. Sonnini. 14 vols. F. Dufart, Paris.
  6. Melin, D. (1923) Contributions to the knowledge of the biology, metamorphosis and distribution of the Swedish asilids in relation to the whole family Asilidae http://diptera.myspecies.info/node/6291
  7. Pape, T.; Blagoderov, B.; Mostovski, M. B. (2011). Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 222-229.
  8. Pape, T.; Blagoderov, B.; Mostovski, M. B. (2011). Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 222-229.
  9. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  10. Systema Dipterorum (2013) http://www.diptera.org/About.php
  11. Vockeroth, J. R.,Peterson, B. V.,Teskey, H. J.,McAlpine, J. F.,Wood, G. C.,Shewell, G. E.,Wood, D. M. (1981) Chapter 42. Asilidae http://diptera.myspecies.info/node/3481
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