Cerotainia Explained

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

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• Cerotainia argyropasta Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia argyropus Schiner, 1868^[1]
• Cerotainia argyropyga Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia atrata Jones, 1907

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• Cerotainia aurata Schiner, 1868^[1]
• Cerotainia bella Schiner, 1867

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• Cerotainia brasiliensis Schiner, 1867

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• Cerotainia camposi Curran, 1934

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• Cerotainia dasythrix Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia debilis Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia dubia Bigot, 1878

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• Cerotainia feminea Curran, 1930

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• Cerotainia flavipes Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia jamaicensis Johnson, 1919

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• Cerotainia laticeps Bromley, 1929

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• Cerotainia leonina Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia macrocera (Say, 1823)

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• Cerotainia marginata Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia melanosoma Scarbrough & Knutson, 1989

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• Cerotainia minima Curran, 1930

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• Cerotainia nigra Bigot, 1878

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• Cerotainia nigripennis (Bellardi, 1861)

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• Cerotainia ornatipes James, 1953

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• Cerotainia propinqua Schiner, 1868^[1]
• Cerotainia rhopalocera (Lynch Arribalzaga, 1882)

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• Cerotainia sarae Rueda, 1998

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• Cerotainia sola Scarbrough & Perez-Gelabert, 2006

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• Cerotainia unicolor Hermann, 1912

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• Cerotainia violaceithorax Lynch Arribalzaga, 1880

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• Cerotainia willistoni Curran, 1930

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• Cerotainia xanthoptera (Wiedemann, 1828)

^cData sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Phylogeny of Asilidae inferred from morphological characters of imagines (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Asiloidea). 2009. Dikow . T.. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. . 319. 2246/5949. free.
• Book: Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. 1981. McAlpine . J. F.. Petersen . B. V.. Shewell . G. E.. Teskey . H. J.. Vockeroth . J. R.. Wood . D. M.. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. 978-0-660-10731-8.
• A world catalogue of the genera of the family Asilidae (Diptera). 2004. Geller-Grimm . Fritz. Studia Dipterologica. 10.

Notes and References

1. Book: Schiner . I.R. . Diptera. vi In [Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von (in charge)], Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara. Zool. 2(1)B. . 1868 . K. Gerold's Sohn . Wien . 388pp., 4 pls.