Promachus (genus)
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- This page refers to the genus of robber flies; for the Greek name Promachus, see PromachusPromachusPromachus is a name that refers to several different people.-Mythology:*Son of Aeson and Alcimede, killed by Pelias along with his father while his brother, Jason, searched for the Golden Fleece....
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Promachus is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of robber flies
Asilidae
Insects in the Diptera family Asilidae are commonly called robber flies. The family Asilidae contains about 7,100 described species worldwide....
. It is part of the subfamily
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Asilinae
Asilinae
Asilinae is a large subfamily of the family Asilidae. It includes over 100 genera.-Systematics:Asilinae Genus *Asilus Linnaeus 1758 *Dysmachus Loew, 1860*Eccritosia*Efferia*Eutolmus Loew, 1848*Machimus Loew, 1849...
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Species List
- P. rufipes FabriciusJohan Christian FabriciusJohan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others...
, 1775 - P. vertebratus SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1823 - P. yesonicusPromachus yesonicusPromachus yesonicus or in Japanese is a species of robber fly found throughout Japan. Adults can reach in length....
BigotJacques-Marie-Frangile BigotJacques Marie Frangile Bigot was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. Born in Paris, where he lived all his life, though he had a small house in Quincy-sous-Sénart, Essonne.He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1844. His first paper...
, 1887