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Walker, Andrew, James Dobson, Jiayi Jin, et al. "Buzz Kill: Function and Proteomic Composition of Venom from the Giant Assassin Fly Dolopus genitalis (Diptera: Asilidae)." Toxins 10, no. 11 (2018): 456. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins10110456.

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Assassin flies (Diptera: Asilidae) inject paralysing venom into insect prey during hunting, but their venoms are poorly characterised in comparison to those produced by spiders, scorpions, or hymenopteran insects. Here we investigated the composition of the venom of the giant Australian assassin fly Dolopus genitalis using a combination of insect microinjection assays, calcium imaging assays of mammalian sensory neurons, proteomics and transcriptomics. Injection of venom into blowflies (Lucilia cuprina) produced rapid contractile paralysis (PD50 at 1 min = 3.1 μg per fly) followed by death, an

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Dikow, Torsten. "Review of Anasillomos Londt, 1983 with the description of a new species (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae)." Biodiversity Data Journal 3 (March 5, 2015): e4652. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4652.

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The southern African assassin-fly genus <i>Anasillomos</i> Londt, 1983 is reviewed. A new species, <i>Anasillomos juergeni</i> sp. n., is described from the Namib desert and represents the second species in the genus. Descriptions/re-descriptions, photographs, and identification keys are provided to aid in the identification. Distribution, occurrence in biodiversity hotspots <i>sensu</i> Conservation International, and seasonal incidence are discussed.

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Londt, Jason G.H., and Torsten Dikow. "A review of the genus Trichoura Londt, 1994 with the description of a new species from the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and a key to world Willistonininae (Diptera, Asilidae)." African Invertebrates 57, no. (2) (2016): 119–35. https://doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.57.10772.

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The South African assassin-fly genus Trichoura Londt, 1994 is reviewed. A new species, Trichoura pardeos sp. n., is described from the arid Karoo in north-western South Africa. A new key to all seven recognized species is provided and the distribution and phenology are discussed. The world fauna of Willistonininae is reviewed, a new taxon Sisyrnodytini tribe n. (type genus Sisyrnodytes Loew, 1856) is established for Ablautus Loew, 1866, Acnephalomyia Londt, 2010, Ammodaimon Londt, 1985, Astiptomyia Londt, 2010, Sisyrnodytes, and Sporadothrix Hermann, 1908 and photographs for all Willistoninina

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Londt, Jason G.H., and Torsten Dikow. "A review of the genus Trichoura Londt, 1994 with the description of a new species from the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and a key to world Willistonininae (Diptera, Asilidae)." African Invertebrates 57, no. (2) (2016): 119–35. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.57.10772.

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The South African assassin-fly genus Trichoura Londt, 1994 is reviewed. A new species, Trichoura pardeos sp. n., is described from the arid Karoo in north-western South Africa. A new key to all seven recognized species is provided and the distribution and phenology are discussed. The world fauna of Willistonininae is reviewed, a new taxon Sisyrnodytini tribe n. (type genus Sisyrnodytes Loew, 1856) is established for Ablautus Loew, 1866, Acnephalomyia Londt, 2010, Ammodaimon Londt, 1985, Astiptomyia Londt, 2010, Sisyrnodytes, and Sporadothrix Hermann, 1908 and photographs for all Willistoninina

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Markee, Amanda, and Torsten Dikow. "Taxonomic revision of the assassin-fly genus Microphontes Londt, 1994 (Insecta, Diptera, Asilidae)." African Invertebrates 59, no. 2 (2018): 195–237. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.59.30684.

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The genus Microphontes Londt, 1994 (Diptera: Asilidae: Brachyrhopalinae) is revised. Currently, three species are known from Namibia and western South Africa, i.e. Microphontesmegoura Londt, 1994 from north-western South Africa, Microphontessafra Londt, 1994 from Namibia and Microphonteswhittingtoni Londt, 1994 from western South Africa. Four new species, Microphontesericfisherisp. n. from the Little Karoo of South Africa, Microphontesgaiophanessp. n. from the Namib desert of Namibia and Microphontesjasonlondtisp. n. and Microphonteskryphiossp. n. from western South Africa, are described. Dist

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Markee, Amanda, and Torsten Dikow. "Taxonomic revision of the assassin-fly genus Microphontes Londt, 1994 (Insecta, Diptera, Asilidae)." African Invertebrates 59, no. (2) (2018): 195–237. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.59.30684.

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The genus Microphontes Londt, 1994 (Diptera: Asilidae: Brachyrhopalinae) is revised. Currently, three species are known from Namibia and western South Africa, i.e. Microphontes megoura Londt, 1994 from north-western South Africa, Microphontes safra Londt, 1994 from Namibia and Microphontes whittingtoni Londt, 1994 from western South Africa. Four new species, Microphontes ericfisheri sp. n. from the Little Karoo of South Africa, Microphontes gaiophanes sp. n. from the Namib desert of Namibia and Microphontes jasonlondti sp. n. and Microphontes kryphios sp. n. from western South Africa, are desc

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DAVRANOGLOU, LEONIDAS-ROMANOS, PETR BAŇAŘ, DANIEL SUÁREZ, SONIA MARTÍN, and MANUEL NARANJO. "A new cavernicolous assassin bug from the Canary Islands (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Collartidini)." Zootaxa 5115, no. 3 (2022): 342–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5115.3.2.

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The Canary Archipelago is home to two species of obligately cavernicolous assassin bugs of the genus Collartida Villiers, 1949 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Collartidini). These species are highly adapted for cave life, being blind and wingless. In the present study, we describe a new species of the genus, C. phantasma sp. nov. from the Federica mine in Gran Canaria. C. phantasma sp. nov. differs from the other two Collartida species found in the Canary Archipelago in that the male is fully winged, the female is wingless, and both sexes have well-developed eyes. We provide inf

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Ferguson, David J., Xuankun Li, and David K. Yeates. "Silent, underground warfare of flies: an endoparasitic bee fly (Diptera: Bombyliidae) larva parasitising a predatory assassin fly (Diptera: Asilidae) larva." Austral Entomology 59, no. 3 (2020): 582–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12482.

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Zhou, Haoyue, Ding Yang, and Xuankun Li. "Integrated Taxonomy Discovers Four New Species of Grypoctonus Speiser, 1928 (Diptera: Asilidae) from China." Insects 16, no. 7 (2025): 722. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16070722.

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The genus Grypoctonus Speiser, 1928 (Diptera: Asilidae) is a fuzzy-looking assassin fly, and adults have only been observed in autumn and winter. Currently containing four described species, this genus is readily distinguished from other Chinese asilids by the presence of two r-m crossveins. Through integrative taxonomic analysis of over 200 specimens from multiple Chinese provinces, we combined morphological assessment with DNA barcoding and four species delimitation methods (ABGD, ASAP, mPTP, and GMYC). Four species are newly described: G. aureus sp. nov., G. sagittatus sp. nov., G. solarius

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Londt, Jason G. H., and Torsten Dikow. "A review of the assassin-fly genus Laphyctis Loew, 1858 with descriptions of two new species (Diptera, Asilidae, Laphriinae)." African Invertebrates 59, no. (1) (2018): 75–106. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.59.25022.

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The asilid genus Laphyctis Loew, 1858 is revised. The genus is restricted to the Afrotropical Region where it has been confused with the more widely distributed Laphystia Loew, 1847, which currently has no Afrotropical representatives. Three previously described species are recognised: Laphyctis gigantella (Loew, 1852), type of the genus, Laphyctis argenteofasciata (Engel, 1929), reinstated from the synonymy of L. gigantella, and Laphyctis orichalcea (Lindner, 1973). Two new species are described, Laphyctis eremia sp. n. from Namibia and Laphyctis iota sp. n. from South Africa. The genus has a

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Londt, Jason G. H., and Torsten Dikow. "A review of the assassin-fly genus Laphyctis Loew, 1858 with descriptions of two new species (Diptera, Asilidae, Laphriinae)." African Invertebrates 59, no. 1 (2018): 75–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.59.25022.

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The asilid genus Laphyctis Loew, 1858 is revised. The genus is restricted to the Afrotropical Region where it has been confused with the more widely distributed Laphystia Loew, 1847, which currently has no Afrotropical representatives. Three previously described species are recognised: Laphyctisgigantella (Loew, 1852), type of the genus, Laphyctisargenteofasciata (Engel, 1929), reinstated from the synonymy of L.gigantella, and Laphyctisorichalcea (Lindner, 1973). Two new species are described, Laphyctiseremia sp. n. from Namibia and Laphyctisiota sp. n. from South Africa. The genus has a wide

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Jin, Jiayi, Akello J. Agwa, Tibor G. Szanto, et al. "Weaponisation ‘on the fly’: Convergent recruitment of knottin and defensin peptide scaffolds into the venom of predatory assassin flies." Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 118 (March 2020): 103310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2019.103310.

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Dikow, Torsten, and Meliah Dubus. "A review of the assassin-fly genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 with the description of a new species (Insecta, Diptera, Asilidae)." African Invertebrates 64, no. 2 (2023): 165–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.104283.

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The genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 (Diptera, Asilidae, Laphriinae) is reviewed. Currently, eight species are recognized from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and southern-most Zambia, i.e., Anypodetus arachnoides Oldroyd, 1974 widespread, Anypodetus fasciatus Hermann, 1907 widespread, Anypodetus fascipennis Engel, 1924 widespread, Anypodetus leucothrix Londt, 2000 restricted to southern Namibia and south-western South Africa, Anypodetus macroceros Londt, 2000 restricted to west-central Namibia, Anypodetus nigrifacies Ricardo, 1925 restricted to eastern-most South Africa a

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Dikow, Torsten, and Meliah Dubus. "A review of the assassin-fly genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 with the description of a new species (Insecta, Diptera, Asilidae)." African Invertebrates 64, no. (2) (2023): 165–206. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.104283.

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The genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 (Diptera, Asilidae, Laphriinae) is reviewed. Currently, eight species are recognized from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and southern-most Zambia, i.e., Anypodetus arachnoides Oldroyd, 1974 widespread, Anypodetus fasciatus Hermann, 1907 widespread, Anypodetus fascipennis Engel, 1924 widespread, Anypodetus leucothrix Londt, 2000 restricted to southern Namibia and south-western South Africa, Anypodetus macroceros Londt, 2000 restricted to west-central Namibia, Anypodetus nigrifacies Ricardo, 1925 restricted to eastern-most South Africa a

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Dikow, Rebecca B., Paul B. Frandsen, Mauren Turcatel, and Torsten Dikow. "Genomic and transcriptomic resources for assassin flies including the complete genome sequence ofProctacanthus coquilletti(Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) and 16 representative transcriptomes." PeerJ 5 (January 31, 2017): e2951. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2951.

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A high-quality draft genome forProctacanthus coquilletti(Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) is presented along with transcriptomes for 16 Diptera species from five families: Asilidae, Apioceridae, Bombyliidae, Mydidae, and Tabanidae. Genome sequencing reveals thatP. coquillettihas a genome size of approximately 210 Mbp and remarkably low heterozygosity (0.47%) and few repeats (15%). These characteristics helped produce a highly contiguous (N50 = 862 kbp) assembly, particularly given that only a single 2 × 250 bp PCR-free Illumina library was sequenced. A phylogenomic hypothesis is presented based on

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Londt, Jason G.H., and Torsten Dikow. "A revision of the Afrotropical genus Prytanomyia Özdikmen, 2006 (Asilidae, Laphriinae)." African Invertebrates 58, no. (2) (2017): 39–52. https://doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.58.13294.

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The monotypic Afrotropical genus Prytanomyia Özdikmen, 2006 is revised. Laphystia kochi Lindner, 1973 is found to belong to Prytanomyia and is identical to Prytanomyia albida (Oldroyd, 1974), type of the genus. As a consequence L. kochi is newly combined with Prytanomyia, and P. albida is placed in the synonymy of P. kochi. The species inhabits arid environments, is restricted to the Namib desert from southern Angola to southern Namibia, and is found on vegetated sand mounds and dunes and in dry riverbeds. The highly reduced pulvilli, characteristic of this species, are believed to be an adapt

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Deborah Porter. "Character Assassination?: Empire Building and Cultural Pathology in Chen Kaige’s The Emperor and the Assassin." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 38, no. 2 (2008): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/flm.0.0031.

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Rapp Learn, Joshua. "Assassin fly babies have ‘Swiss army knife’ mouths." Science, December 7, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw3118.

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Haug, J. K., C. Nagler, C. Haug, and M. K. Hörnig. "A group of assassin fly pupae preserved in a single piece of Eocene amber." Bulletin of Geosciences, September 30, 2017, 283–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1621.

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Brito, Tarcísio Fontenele de, Maira Arruda Cardoso, Nazerke Atinbayeva, et al. "Embryonic piRNAs target horizontally transferred vertebrate transposons in assassin bugs." Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 12 (November 20, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1481881.

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IntroductionPiwi proteins and the associated Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) coordinate a surveillance system that protects the animal genome from DNA damage induced by transposable element (TE) mobilization. While the pathway has been described in detail in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, much less is known in more basal insects. Rhodnius prolixus is an hemipteran insect and one of the major vectors of Chagas disease. Rhodnius acquired specific classes of horizontally transferred transposons (HTTs) by feeding on bats, opossums and squirrel monkeys, thus providing the opportunity to inve

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Ruiz–García, N. "Effectiveness of the aposematic Eumaeus childrenae caterpillars against invertebrate predators under field conditions." Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, February 2020, 109–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32800/abc.2020.43.0109.

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Eumaeus childrenae (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) caterpillars are specialist herbivores that feed on Dioon holmgrenii (Cycadacea). They are a well–documented case of chemical protection by sequestering cycasin and related compounds from their host. In this study we evaluated the effectiveness of aposematic defenses against chemical and visual invertebrate predators in wild populations of E. childrenae reared on D. holmgrenii. The results from field experiments indicated that the estimated survival and the intrinsic rate of increase in cohorts with predator exclusion were twice those in cohorts wit

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Babić, Željka. "When Yours and Mine Are (Not) Ours: Reclaiming Personal and National Histories in Tim Butcher’s The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War." Folia linguistica et litteraria, June 20, 2019, 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.26.2019.4.

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Even though the WWI ended a century ago, it seems viable to say that its presence and consequences are still echoing in the (sub)conscious self of the peoples in the Western Balkans. This paper focuses on disclosure of possible linguistic traits within a literary text, which uncover the author’s attitude towards the cultural and historical events he depicts. The aim is to investigate the possibility of extracting the parallel personal and general histories, their overlapping points, be they cultural or historical, through the linguistic tools used. The main focal point is on juxtaposing inform

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