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Cophura

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Description

Cophura is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 50 described species in Cophura.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cophura, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1655865	https://www.gbif.org/species/1655865
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138987	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138987

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Asilidae : Cophura

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
-	Heterodactyla
superfamily	Asiloidea	Latreille 1802
family	Asilidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Dasypogoninae	Macquart 1838
genus	Cophura	Osten-Sacken 1887

Scientific Name

Cophura Osten-Sacken, 1887

Name Published In

Biol. Centr. Amer., Zool., Dipt., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cophura	genus	belongs to Asilidae	stated with evidence	Aldrich, 1905
Cophura	genus	belongs to Dasypogoninae	stated with evidence	James, 1939
Cophura	genus	belongs to Asilidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cophura

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cophura acapulcae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura ameles species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura antiquella ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Cophura apotma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura arizonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura atypha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura bella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura brevicornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura caca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura calla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura clausa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura cora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura cristatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura dammersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura daphne species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura dora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura feigei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura fergusoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura fisheri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura flavus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura fur species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura getzendaneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura hennei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura hesperia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura humilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura hurdi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura igualae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura luteus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura lutzi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura luzti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura melanochaeta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura nephressa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura painteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura picta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura pollinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura powersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura pulchella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura rozeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura rubidus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura scitula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura sculleni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura sodalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura stylosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura sundra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura tanbarki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura texana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura timberlakei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura tolandi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura trunca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura vanduzeei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura vandykei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura vera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura vitripennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura wilcoxi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura willistoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cophura zandra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1887	Cophura Osten-Sacken p. 181
1905	Cophura Aldrich p. 266
1939	Cophura James p. 43
1962	Cophura Hull
1992	Cophura Carpenter

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Aldrich J. M. (1905) A catalogue of North American Diptera (or two-winged flies), Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 46 2, 1-680

James M. T. (1939) A preliminary review of certain families of Diptera from the Florissant Miocene Beds. II, Journal of Paleontology 13 1, 42-48

Hull F. M. (1962) Robber flies of the world, the genera of the family Asilidae, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 224, 1-430

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

Biol. Centr. Amer., Zool., Dipt., 1 - 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!

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