Michotamia aurata ( Fabricius, 1794 )

Yatoo, Suhaib Firdous, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Pillai, Kavya G. & Cohen, Chris M., 2024, Catalog of the Robber Flies of India (Diptera: Asilidae), Zootaxa 5509 (1), pp. 1-88 : 53-54

Michotamia aurata ( Fabricius, 1794)

Asilus auratus Fabricius, 1794: 387 . Type locality: India [ India orientali] [Type?, NHMD] .

Lochites testaceus Bigot, 1878: 425 . Type locality: Myanmar [Birmania] [Syntypes ♂, ♀, OUMNH]. Indian distribution: Andaman & Nicobar Islands: [no further locality]; Andhra Pradesh: East Godavari Dist.: Bendapudi [Bondavidi]; Eluru Dist.: 12 km N. Eluru (city); Tammileru [Tamilaru] River bed (riverbed); Vatluru [Vetluru] (village); West Godavari Dist.: Devarapalli [Dorarpalli] (village); Gopala-puram [Gopalpuram] (village); Vizianagaram Dist.: Bobbili [Bobbli Gurgi] (town); 5–10 km N. Srungavarapukota (town); Arunachal Pradesh: [no further locality]; Bihar: Samastipur Dist.: Pusa (town); Saran Dist.: Chhapra [Chapra] (city); Delhi: [no further locality]; Goa: North Goa Dist.: Panaji (city); South Goa Dist.: Vasco da Gama (city); Gujarat: Vadodara Dist.: Vadodara [Baroda] (city); Karnataka: Bengaluru Urban Dist.: Bengaluru [Bangalore] (city); Davangere Dist.: Davangere (city); Uttar Kannad Dist.: Anamod [Amod] (village); Kerala: Idukki Dist.: Thekkady (town); Palakkad Dist.: Walayar (town); Thrissur Dist.: Chalakudy [Chalakudi] (town); Wayanad [Wynaad] Dist.: Chembra Peak Area (mountain); Madhya Pradesh: Jabalpur Dist.: Jabalpur (city); Odisha [Orissa]: Dhenkanal Dist.: Kapilash [Kapilas] Deer Park (reserve); Khordha Dist.: Balugaon [Balugan] (town): Chilika Lake (lake); Mayurbhanj Dist.: Baladia [Balidiya] (village); Sambalpur Dist.: Jharuapara [Jhuripara] (locality); Rengali [Rangli] (town): B.D.O. Office Compound (locale); Sundergarh Dist.: Sagbahal (village); Sundergarh [Sundargarh] (town); Puducherry [Pondicheryy]: Karaikal Dist.: Karaikal [Karikal] (town); Punjab: Rupnagar Dist.: Anandpur (city), Naina Devi Road (locale); Rajasthan: Ajmer Dist.: Beer Tank (locale); Alwar Dist.: Alwar (city); Bundi Dist.: Indergarh (city); Jodhpur Dist.: Mandore Gardens (suburb); Sirohi Dist.: Mount Abu (hill station); Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore Dist.: Coimbatore (city); Dharmapuri Dist.: Nethaji [Nethalai] (bypass); Tenkasi Dist.: Courtallam [Courtalam] (town); Telangana: Hyderabad Dist.: Hyderabad (city); Uttarakhand: Dehradun Dist.: Dehradun (city); Uttar Pradesh: Hapur Dist.: Raghunathpur [Ragunathpur] (village); West Bengal: Bankura Dist.: Sonamukhi Forest (reserve); Darjeeling [Darjiling] Dist.: Singla (village); Sukna (village); Kolkata Dist.: Kolkata [Calcutta] (city); Malda Dist.: Nalagola (locality) ( Bromley 1935: 230; Lal 1960: 70; Joseph & Parui 1983a: 330; 1984b: 29; 1985: 57; 1987d: 228; 1987e: 209; 1987f: 151; 1989a: 196; 1990a: 37; 1990b: 265; 1991: 246; 1993a: 126; 1993b: 101; 1993d: 102; 1993e: 153; 1995: 16; 1997a: 104; 1997b: 13; 1998: 174, 189; 1999b: 16; Parui & Joseph 1994: 194; Parui & Lahiri 1997: 360; Lahiri & Mitra 2004: 128; Mathew 2004: 113; Mitra et al. 2005: 149; Parui et al. 2006: 92; Banerjee et al. 2020: 584; Naskar et al. 2020: 18; Pillai et al. 2023: 415).

World distribution: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand ( Fabricius 1794: 387; Wiedemann 1821: 214; Bigot 1878: 425; Oldroyd 1975: 130; Joseph & Parui 1983a: 327; 1985: 57; 1995: 16; Zhang et al.: 2012: 50).

* Michotamia compedita ( Wiedemann, 1828)

Ommatius compeditus Wiedemann, 1828: 419 . Type locality: India? [Ostindien?] [Syntypes ♂, ♀ NMW].

Indian distribution: India [no further locality] ( Wiedemann 1828: 419; Lal 1960: 9; Oldroyd 1975: 130; Joseph & Parui 1983a: 327; 1998: 175).