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Cryptotylus

Cryptotylus is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.

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Cryptotylus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tabanidae
Subfamily: Tabaninae
Tribe: Diachlorini
Genus: Cryptotylus
Lutz, 19091
Type species
Tabanus unicolor
Synonyms

Cryptotylus is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.45

Species

  • Cryptotylus aeratus Philip & Fairchild, 1956
  • Cryptotylus cauri Stone, 19446
  • Cryptotylus chloroticus Philip & Fairchild, 1956
  • Cryptotylus stonei Maldonado Capriles, 1955
  • Cryptotylus unicolor (Wiedemann, 1828)2
  • Cryptotylus xikrin Gorayeb & Fairchild, 1985
References

References

  1. Lutz, A. (1909). "Collecção de tabanidas. Pp. 28-30. In Instituto Oswaldo Cruz". Instituto Oswaldo Cruz em Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro.: 47.
  2. Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1828). Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Hamm: Zweiter Theil. Schulz. pp. xxxii + 608 pp., 7 pls.
  3. Enderlein, G. (1923). "Vorlaufige Diagnosen neuer Tabaniden genera. (Dipt.)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 1923: 544–545.
  4. Moucha, J. (1976). "Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements. 7: 1–320. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  5. Fairchild, G.B.; Burger, J.F. (1994). "A catalog of the Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Americas south of the United States". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 55: vii + 249.
  6. Stone, A. (1944). "Some Tabanidae from Venezuela". Bol. Ent. Venezolana. 3: 125–138.