Poecilognathus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asiloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Asilomorpha Superfamilia: Asiloidea

Familia: Bombyliidae
Subfamilia: Phthiriinae
Subfamilia: Poecilognathini
Genus: Poecilognathus
Species: P. badia – P. badius – P. bicolor – P. damfino – P. fulvidus – P. fuscomarginatus – P. inornatus – P. loewi – P. marginatus – P. philippianus – P. pulchellus – P. punctipennis – P. radius – P. relativitae – P. scolopax – P. stictopennis – †P. stigmalis – P. sulphureus – P. testaceus – P. thlipsomyzoides – P. unicolor – P. unimaculatus – P. xanthogaster

Name

Poecilognathus Jaennicke, 1867: 350

Type species: Poecilognathus thlipsomyzoides Jaennicke, 1867, by monotypy

Synonymy

Geronites Cockerell, 1914: 230
- Type species: Geronites stigmalis Cockerell, 1914 [= Phthiria sulphurea Loew, 1863], by monotypy
Agenosia Hull, 1973: 195
- Originally proposed as subgenus of Phthiria
- Type species: Phthiria vittata Hull, 1973 [= Phthiria loewi Painter in Painter & Painter, 1965], by original designation

References

Primary references

Jaennicke, J.F. 1867. Neue exotische Dipteren. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 6: 311–408. BHL Reference page.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. The fossil and Recent Bomyliidae compared. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33: 229–236. hdl: 2246/1717 Reference page.
Hull, F.M. 1973. Bee flies of the world: the genera of the family Bombyliidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 286. 687 pp. ISBN 978-0-87474-131-5 OCLC: 572917 BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Evenhuis, N.L. 2025. A remarkable new species of the Poecilognathus punctipennis group from Arizona (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 164: 1–9. Full text (PDF). Internet Archive Reference page.

Links

Poecilognathus – Taxon details on Catalogue of Life (CoL).