Damalis vitripennis Osten Sacken, 1882

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 : 72-73

Damalis vitripennis Osten Sacken, 1882

Damalis vitripennis Osten Sacken, 1882: 106 . Type locality: Philippines [Syntypes ♂, ♀, SDEI].

Indian distribution: Meghalaya: East Khasi Hills Dist.: Shillong (city); Tamil Nadu: Nilgiris Dist.: Coonoor (town) ( Lal 1960: 71).

World distribution: China, India, Philippines ( Osten Sacken 1882: 106; Lal 1960: 71; Oldroyd 1975: 128).

Trigonomima Enderlein, 1914

* Trigonomima anamaliensis Joseph & Parui, 1980

Trigonomima anamaliensis Joseph & Parui, 1980b: 197 . Type locality: India (Kerala: Kadampara ) [Holotype ♂, UCR].

Indian distribution: Karnataka: Chikkamagaluru Dist.: Mudigere [Mudigore] (town); Shivamogga Dist.: Jog Falls (waterfall); Kerala: Palakkad Dist.: Kadampara (village); Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore Dist.: Cinchona (town); Nilgiris Dist.: Cherangode (village); Devala (town); Gudalur (town) ( Joseph & Parui 1980b: 198; 1983a: 319; 1984b: 36; 1987d: 226; 1990a: 31; 1990b: 263; 1991: 245; Parui & Joseph 1994: 191; Sen et al. 2016: 215; Pillai et al. 2023: 418).

* Trigonomima fuscopoda Joseph & Parui, 1981

Trigonomima fuscopoda Joseph & Parui, 1981d: 203 . Type locality: India (Arunachal Pradesh: Tippi ) [Holotype ♂, ZSI].

Indian distribution: Andhra Pradesh: Subansiri (region); Kameng Dist.: Tippi [Tipi] (village); Assam: Sonitpur Dist.: Tezpur (city) ( Joseph & Parui 1981d: 204; 1983a: 319; 1987f: 149; 1990a: 31; Sen et al. 2016: 215).

Species Excluded from the Indian Fauna

The 27 species that are listed below have been recorded to occur in various interpretations of “ India ” in the past, but we don’t think that there are any current, reliable occurrence records for these species within the boundaries of contemporary India. We include notes to support our decision(s) to remove each species from the Indian fauna. We do not currently believe that any of the species listed in this section have reliable evidence of their occurrence in India, although future research may offer fresh proof that some of these species do, in fact, belong to the Indian fauna. The reasons for exclusion differ from species to species and include misidentifications, erroneous locality, lapsus calami, and historical changes in the boundaries of India etc.