Lecania (fly)

Lecania is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about five described species in Lecania.[1][2]

Lecania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Asilidae
Genus:	Lecania

Species

These five species belong to the genus Lecania:

• Lecania boraceae Carrera, 1958 ^{c g}
• Lecania ctesicles (Walker, 1851) ^{c g}
• Lecania femorata Macquart, 1838 ^{c g}
• Lecania leucopyga (Wiedemann, 1828) ^{c g}
• Lecania tabescens Rondani, 1875 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,[3] c = Catalogue of Life,[1] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net

References

1. "Browse Lecania". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
2. "Lecania". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
3. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-22.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Bromley, S.W. (1950). "Florida Asilidae (Diptera) with descriptions of one new species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 43: 227–239.
• Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Dikow, T. (2009). "Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
• Hull, F.M. (1962). "Robber flies of the world". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 224.
• McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.

External links

• Dikow, Torsten (2018). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
• "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-04-22.