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Taracticus
| Description | Taracticus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are about 16 described species in Taracticus. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taracticus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Asilidae : Taracticus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Taracticus Loew, 1872 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Berlin. Ent. Z., 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taracticus |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Psilocephala hypogaea species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus aciculatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus argentifacies species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
 Taracticus contusus ✝species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 37.2 Ma Eocene | 37.2 Ma Eocene | |
| Taracticus geniculatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus guerrerensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus nigrimystaceus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus nigripes species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus octopunctatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus paulus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus renovatus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 37.2 Ma Eocene | 37.2 Ma Eocene | |
| Taracticus ruficaudus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus similis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Taracticus vitripennis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Berlin. Ent. Z., 16 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
