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Machimus assamensis Ricardo 1919

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  • 2. Department of Zoology, Govt. Degree College, Kulgam- 192231 Jammu & Kashmir, India. & aijaz _ shoorida @ yahoo. co. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2506 - 9840
  • 3. Shadpada Entomology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Christ College (Affiliated to University of Calicut), Irinjalakuda- 680125 Kerala, India. & kavyagpillai 2015 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0006 - 4020 - 2573
  • 4. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London-SW 7 2 AZ, UK. & North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U. S. A. & Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London-SW 7 2 AZ, UK. & myelaphus @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2881 - 7779 Corresponding author: aijaz _ shoorida @ yahoo. co. in

Description

Machimus assamensis Ricardo, 1919

Machimus assamensis Ricardo, 1919: 46. Type locality: India (Assam) [Lectotype ♂, NHMUK].

Indian distribution: Arunachal Pradesh: Mishmi Hills (region); Assam: [no further locality]; Meghalaya: East Khasi Hills Dist.: Shillong (city) (Ricardo 1919: 46; Lal 1960: 70; Oldroyd 1964a: 242; 1975: 144; Joseph & Parui 1983a: 354; 1986a: 9; 1990a: 55).

World distribution: India, Myanmar, Nepal (Ricardo 1919: 46; Lal 1960: 70; Oldroyd 1964a: 242).

Notes

Published as part of Yatoo, Suhaib Firdous, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Pillai, Kavya G. & Cohen, Chris M., 2024, Catalog of the Robber Flies of India (Diptera: Asilidae), pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 5509 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13848219

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Family
Asilidae
Genus
Machimus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ricardo
Species
assamensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Machimus assamensis Ricardo, 1919 sec. Yatoo, Wachkoo, Pillai & Cohen, 2024

References

  • Ricardo, G. (1919) Notes on the Asilidae: sub-division Asilinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 3, 44 - 79. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931908673800
  • Lal, R. (1960) Catalogue of Indian Insects. Part 29. Asilidae: Diptera (Including keys to the subfamilies and Indian genera). Indian Council of Agriculture Research, New Delhi, ii + 77 pp.
  • Oldroyd, H. (1964 a) Diptera from Nepal. Asilidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 15, 237 - 254. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 20540
  • Oldroyd, H. (1975) Family Asilidae. In: Delfinado, M. D. & Hardy, E. (Eds.), A catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Vol. II. Suborder Brachycera through Division Aschiza, Suborder Cyclorrhapha. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 99 - 156.
  • Joseph, A. N. T. & Parui, P. (1983 a) A review of the Asilidae (Diptera) from the Oriental Region. Oriental Insects, 17 (1), 269 - 393. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1983.10433697
  • Joseph, A. N. T. & Parui, P. (1986 a) A revision of Indian Machimus Loew (Diptera: Asilidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 96, 1 - 58.
  • Joseph, A. N. T. & Parui, P. (1990 a) A Review of the Asilidae (Diptera) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No., 113, 1 - 120.