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Cerotainia Macrocera
''Cerotainia macrocera'' is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae. References macrocera ''Macrocera'' is a genus of predatory fungus gnats in the family Keroplatidae The Keroplatidae are a family of small flies known as fungus gnats. About 950 species are described, but the true number of species is undoubtedly much higher. They ... Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1823 {{asilidae-stub ...
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Thomas Say
Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 – October 10, 1834) was an American entomologist, conchologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. His studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. He served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society (elected in 1817), and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Early life and education Born in Philadelphia into a prominent Religious Society of Friends, Quaker family, Thomas Say was the great-grandson of John Bartram, and the great-nephew of William Bartram. His father, Dr. Benjamin Say, was brother-in-law to another Bartram son, Moses Bartram. The Say family had a house, "The Cliffs" at Gray's Ferry Bridge, ...
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Asilidae
The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight. Overview The Asilidae are a family in the order Diptera, the true flies. The common name for members of the family is the robber flies. The Asilidae are cosmopolitan, with over 7000 described species. Latreille was the authority for establishing the family in 1802. The Asilidae, together with Bombyliidae and Therevidae, are the most representative families of the superfamily of Asiloidea and they form one of the most characteristic groups of the lower Brachycera. Robber flies have stout, spiny legs and three simple eyes (ocelli) in a characteristic depression on the tops of their head between their two ...
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Cerotainia
''Cerotainia'' is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 30 described species in ''Cerotainia''. Species These 32 species belong to the genus ''Cerotainia'': * ''Cerotainia albipilosa'' Curran, 1930 * ''Cerotainia argyropasta'' Hermann, 1912 * ''Cerotainia argyropus'' Schiner, 1868 * ''Cerotainia argyropyga'' Hermann, 1912 * ''Cerotainia atrata'' Jones, 1907 * ''Cerotainia aurata'' Schiner, 1868 * ''Cerotainia bella'' Schiner, 1867 * ''Cerotainia brasiliensis'' Schiner, 1867 * ''Cerotainia camposi'' Curran, 1934 * ''Cerotainia dasythrix'' Hermann, 1912 * ''Cerotainia debilis'' Hermann, 1912 * ''Cerotainia dubia'' Bigot, 1878 * ''Cerotainia feminea'' Curran, 1930 * ''Cerotainia flavipes'' Hermann, 1912 * ''Cerotainia jamaicensis'' Johnson, 1919 * ''Cerotainia laticeps'' Bromley, 1929 * ''Cerotainia leonina'' Hermann, 1912 * ''Cerotainia macrocera'' (Say, 1823) * ''Cerotainia marginata'' Hermann, 1912 * ''Cerotainia melanosoma'' Scarbrough & Knutson, 1989 ...
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