The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·61609GenusInsecta2,459 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Flies
  7. ›Brachyceran Flies
  8. ›Orthorrhaphan Flies
  9. ›Asiloidea
  10. ›Robber Flies
  11. ›Asilinae
  12. ›Asilini
Asilus
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Marcello Consolo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · via iNaturalist

Asilus

Asilus is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 150 described species in Asilus.

Continue reading on Wikipedia

15 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Hornet Robber Fly

speciesAsilus crabroniformis

Butterflyhunter

speciesAsilus sericeus

Asilus barbarus

speciesAsilus barbarus

Asilus auricomus

speciesAsilus auricomus

Asilus delicatulus

speciesAsilus delicatulus

Asilus vescus

speciesAsilus vescus

Asilus humilis

speciesAsilus humilis

Asilus mexicanus

speciesAsilus mexicanus

Asilus bombylius

speciesAsilus bombylius

Asilus melanotarsus

speciesAsilus melanotarsus

Asilus nigellus

speciesAsilus nigellus

Asilus schedius

speciesAsilus schedius

Asilus nigribarbis

speciesAsilus nigribarbis

Asilus natalicus

speciesAsilus natalicus

Asilus forficula

speciesAsilus forficula

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Asilus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61609.