Philodicus femoralis Ricardo, 1921

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 : 28

Philodicus femoralis Ricardo, 1921

Philodicus femoralis Ricardo, 1921a: 190 . Type locality: Myanmar [Burmah] (Schwegu: Okkyl) [Syntypes ♂, ♀, NHMUK].

Indian distribution: Arunachal Pradesh: Vizianagaram Dist.: Bobbili [Bobbli Gurgi] (town); Assam: Dibrugarh Dist.: Chabua (town); Bihar: Samastipur Dist.: Pusa (town); Saran Dist.: Chhapra [Chapra] (city); Goa: North Goa Dist.: Mercês [Mercus] (locality); Valpoi (city); South Goa Dist.: Fatorda [Fatonda] (suburb); Margao (city); Vasco da Gama (city); Gujarat: Junagadh Dist.: Dari [Veraval Dari] (village); Himachal Pradesh: [no further locality]; Karnataka: [no further locality]; Kerala: Thrissur Dist.: Chalakudy [Chalakudi] (town); Meghalaya: West Garo Hills Dist.: Barengapara [Barangapara] (village); Damalgiri (locality); Odisha [Orissa]: Sambalpur Dist.: Rengali [Rangli] (town): B.D.O. Office Compound (locale); Rajasthan: Ajmer Dist.: Beer Tank (locale); Gegal [Gogal] (village); Saradhana (village); Bundi Dist.: Indergarh (city); Jaipur Dist.: Jaipur (city); Pratapgarh Dist.: Pratapgarh (town); Sawai Madhopur Dist.: Choru (village); Sikkim: Gangtok Dist.: Ranipool (town); Namchi Dist.: Namthang (town); Tamil Nadu: Nilgiris Dist.: Cherangode [Charangode] (village); Salem Dist.: Shevaroy Hills (mountain); Uttarakhand: Dehradun Dist.: Dehradun (city); Udham Singh Nagar Dist.: Pratappur (village); Uttar Pradesh: Baghpat Dist.: Baghpat [Baghpet] (city); Bulandshahr Dist.: Khurja (city); Sikandrabad (city); Gautam Buddha Nagar Dist.: Noida (city); Salarpur Kalan (village); Hapur Dist.: Raghunathpur [Ragunathpur] (village); Meerut Dist.: Meerut (city); West Bengal: Bankura Dist.: Sonamukhi Forest (reserve); Kolkata Dist.: Kolkata [Calcutta] (city): Slaughter house (locale); Malda Dist.: [no further locality] ( Ricardo 1921a: 190; Lal 1960: 70; Joseph & Parui 1983a: 361; 1985: 66; 1987b: 100; 1987c: 108; 1987e: 211; 1987f: 156; 1990a: 61; 1993a: 128; 1993b: 105; 1993d: 105; 1993e: 157; 1997a: 117; 1999a: 108; 1999b: 22; Parui & Joseph 1994: 200; Parui 2003: 337; Lahiri & Mitra 2004: 128; Mitra et al. 2005: 150; Naskar et al. 2020: 181; Pillai et al. 2023: 413).

World distribution: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar ( Ricardo 1921a: 190; Oldroyd 1975: 149; Joseph & Parui 1987b: 100).