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Megaphorus
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Megaphorus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 18 described species in Megaphorus.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 296
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Asilidae
- Collections
- MNA
- Recorded in
- United States
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Asilidae
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- Robberfly - Megaphorus clausicellus?, Archbold Biological Station, Venus, Florida.jpg
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Megaphorus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 18 described species in Megaphorus.
==Species== These 18 species belong to the genus Megaphorus: Megaphorus acrus (Curran, 1931) i c g b Megaphorus brunneus (Cole, 1964) c g Megaphorus clausicellus (Macquart, 1850) i c g b Megaphorus durangoensis Cole & Pritchard, 1964 c g Megaphorus flavidus (Cole, 1964) c g b Megaphorus frustra Cole & Pritchard, 1964 c Megaphorus frustrus (PRITCHARD, 1935) c g b Megaphorus guildiana (Williston, 1885) i c g Megaphorus intermedius (Tucker, 1907) i c g Megaphorus laphroides (Wiedemann, 1828) i c g b Megaphorus lascrucensis (Cole, 1964) i c g Megaphorus martinorum (Cole, 1964) i c g Megaphorus megachile (Coquillett, 1893) i c g b Megaphorus minutus (Macquart, 1834) i c g b Megaphorus pallidus (Johnson, 1958) i c g b Megaphorus prudens (Pritchard, 1935) i c g b Megaphorus pulchrus (Pritchard, 1935) i c g Megaphorus willistoni (Cole, 1964) i c g b
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