Holcocephala Jaennicke

Scarbrough, Aubrey G. & Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E., 2006, A review of the asilid (Diptera) fauna from Hispaniola with six genera new to the island, fifteen new species, and checklist, Zootaxa 1381, pp. 1-91 : 84

publication ID

1175­5334

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E5198780-4F17-FFE6-6328-D14DFB12ACC3

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scientific name

Holcocephala Jaennicke
status

 

Holcocephala Jaennicke View in CoL View at ENA

Discocephala Macquart, 1838: 50 (1839: 166) View in CoL (preocc. Laporte, 1832). Type species: rufiventris Macquart View in CoL , ( Coquillett 1910: 534) = abdominalis (Say).

Holcocephala Jaennicke, 1867: 359 View in CoL (nom, nov. for Discocephala Macquart ). Type species: Discocephala rufiventris Macquart (aut.) = abdominalis (Say).

Remarks. This largely Neotropical genus is composed of small [4–8 mm], broad-winged, weak flying species. Species are distinguished by the wide, flattened head, reduced face and frons, prominent goggle-like eyes and the thorax is strongly arched ( Hull, 1962). They usually inhabit moist habitats, usually in diffuse light or shades of nearby forest margins, perching on the tips of vegetation. Here we report the first species in the West Indies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

Loc

Holcocephala Jaennicke

Scarbrough, Aubrey G. & Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E. 2006
2006
Loc

Holcocephala

Jaennicke, M. T. 1867: 359
1867
Loc

Discocephala

Coquillett, D. W. 1910: 534
Macquart, J. 1838: 50
1838
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