Ceraturgus niger Macquart

Barnes, Jeffrey K., 2008, Review of the genus Ceraturgus Wiedemann (Diptera: Asilidae) in North America north of Mexico, Zootaxa 1766, pp. 1-45 : 43

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.182011
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6233528
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scientific name	Ceraturgus niger Macquart
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Ceraturgus niger Macquart, 1838: 25 .

Macquart (1838) described Ceraturgus niger “de l’Amérique boréale.” Walker (1854) later listed it from Mexico. Osten Sacken (1878) transferred it to Taracticus View in CoL without explanation. Brauer (1883) did not find the stout, enlarged spine at the apex of the fore tibia that is found in Taracticus View in CoL . He and Williston (1884) felt that C. niger did not belong in Taracticus View in CoL . Macquart’s (1838) illustrations show five antennomeres, with the third flagellomere longer than the scape, and much shorter than the first flagellomere. He described it as a small (about 8.5 mm long), black species with grayish yellow face and front, yellowish mystax, yellowish wings, having white spots on some of the abdominal segments. Macquart’s C. niger cannot be a species of Taracticus View in CoL , but no known North American species of Ceraturgus View in CoL fits its description.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Asilidae
Genus	Ceraturgus