Promachus maculatus ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 34

Promachus maculatus ( Fabricius, 1775)

Asilus maculatus Fabricius, 1775: 794 . Type locality: India [ India orientali] [Type?, unknown].

Trupanea flavibarbis Macquart, 1838: 96 . Type locality: India (Puducherry) [Holotype ♂, MNHNP].

Asilus copillus Walker, 1849: 389 . Type locality: unknown [Syntypes ♂, ♀, NHMUK].

Indian distribution: Andhra Pradesh: West Godavari Dist.: Gopala-puram (village); Visakhapatnam Dist.: Sanivaram Forest (reserve); Bihar: Samastipur Dist.: Pusa (town); Saran Dist.: Chhapra [Chapra] (city); Delhi: [no further locality]; Karnataka: Bengaluru Urban Dist.: Bengaluru [Bangalore] (city); Kerala: [no further locality]; Odisha [Orissa]: Gajapati Dist.: Narayanpur [Narayanapuram] (village); Puducherry [Pondichery]: [no further locality]; Rajasthan: [no further locality]; Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore Dist.: Coimbatore (city); Salem Dist.: Shevaroy Hills [Shevaroys] (mountain); Uttar Pradesh: [no further locality]; West Bengal: Alipurduar Dist.: Alipurduar (city); Darjeeling Dist.: Kuapani (village); Kurseong (town); Jalpaiguri Dist.: Jalpaiguri (city); Kalimpong Dist.: Phaperkheti (village) ( Fabricius 1775: 794; Macquart 1838: 96; Ricardo 1921b: 218; Lal 1960: 70; Oldroyd 1975: 153; Joseph & Parui 1983a: 367; 1984b: 34; 1985: 67; 1989a: 201; 1990a: 65; 1995: 34; 1997b: 24; 1999b: 23; Parui & Lahiri 1997: 360; Naskar et al. 2019a: 417; Pillai et al. 2023: 413).

World distribution: India, Indonesia, Iran, Sri Lanka ( Fabricius 1775: 794; Macquart 1838: 96; Joseph & Parui 1985: 67; Ghahari et al. 2014: 1384).