Asilus paterculus Walker, 1851

Yatoo, Suhaib Firdous, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Pillai, Kavya G. & Cohen, Chris M., 2024, Catalog of the Robber Flies of India (Diptera: Asilidae), Zootaxa 5509 (1), pp. 1-88 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5509.1.1
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scientific name	Asilus paterculus Walker, 1851
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Asilus paterculus Walker, 1851 View in CoL

Asilus paterculus Walker, 1851: 146 View in CoL . Type locality: Indonesia? [ East Indies ] [Holotype ♀, NHMUK].

World distribution: Indonesia? [not India] ( Walker 1851: 146).

Note: There are no known contemporary confirmed occurrence records from India. Every prior attribution of an Indian occurrence (e.g., Ricardo 1922: 52; Lal 1960: 17) refers to the type locality, East Indies, which is thought to be a part of Southeast Asia’s islands rather than India.