Promachus Loew, 1848

Vieira, Rodrigo, Camargo, Alexssandro, Pollet, Marc & Dikow, Torsten, 2019, Updated checklist of French Guianan Asilidae (Diptera) with a focus on the Mitaraka expedition, Zoosystema 41 (23), pp. 443-464 : 450

Genus Promachus Loew, 1848

REMARK

The genus was reported from French Guiana by Tomasovic (2002a). The single female Promachus specimen has been collected at Montagne de Kaw (= Kaw Mountain), Camp Patawa, in northeast French Guiana. According to Fisher (2009), the genus is widespread mainly in the northern parts of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. Also, nearly all Promachus species recorded from South America have been transferred to Amblyonychus and the latter genus is considered to be distributed from Venezuela and Colombia northward into Central and North America. True Promachus species are also present in Central America, i.e., Costa Rica and Panama (Fisher in litt.). Thus, it is possible that this record may refer to Amblyonychus .