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Belongs within: Asilidae.
The Apocleinae are a group of robber flies characterised by a bare anatergite and bare antennal stylus.
Characters (from Wood 1981, as subgroup of Asilini): Apex of antenna with long, slender, bare bristle-like stylus. Palpus one-segmented. Postmetacoxal area membranous. R2+3 joining R1 proximal to end of R1, with cell r thus separated from wing margin. Anatergite bare.
<==Apocleinae [Apocleini]BT04 |--Promachus Loew 1848BT04, Z01 | |--P. ancepsF09 | |--P. bastardiiBT04 | |--P. bellardiiF09 | |--P. fuscipennisF09 | `--P. yesonicusW81 `--+--EfferiaBT04 [incl. AlbibarbefferiaF09, CarinefferiaF09, DiplosynapsisF09, NeraxF09, PogonioefferiaF09, PorasilusF09] | |--E. aestuansW81 | |--E. albibarbisF09 | |--E. nemoralisBT04 | `--E. quadrimaculataF09 `--ProctacanthusBT04 |--P. fulviventrisF09 |--P. milbertiiW81 |--P. nearnoBT04 `--P. occidentalisBM76 Apocleinae incertae sedis: MallophoraF09 |--M. mediaW81 |--M. minosF09 |--M. orcinaW81 |--M. ruficaudaW81 `--M. tibialisF09 CtenodontinaF09 |--*C. pectinatipesF09 |--C. complicataF09 `--C. martiniF09 EccritosiaF09 |--E. barbataF09 `--E. zamonF09 EicheraxF09 |--E. bellardiiF09 |--E. disjunctusF09 `--E. nigripesF09 Eichoichemus lizbethaeF09 Glaphyropyga dryasF09 Martintella Artigas 1996 (see below for synonymy)F09 `--*M. lestes [=Asilus lestes, *Martinella lestes, Wilcoxius lestes]F09 TaurhynchusF09 |--T. caudatusF09 `--T. xanthopterusF09 TriorlaF09 |--T. interruptaF09 `--T. striolaF09 Wilcoxius Martin 1975F09 |--W. acutulusF09 |--W. crenusF09 `--W. truncusF09 EraxF09 |--E. tabascensE66 `--E. tuberculatusE66
Martintella Artigas 1996 [=Martinella Artigas & Papavero 1995 nec Jousseaume 1887 nec (Cooke) Sacc. 1892 (ICBN)]F09
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[BM76] Bohart, R. M., & A. S. Menke. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World. University of California Press: Berkeley.
[BT04] Bybee, S. M., S. D. Taylor, C. R. Nelson & M. F. Whiting. 2004. A phylogeny of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) at the subfamilial level: molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 789–797.
[E66] Evans, H. E. 1966. The Comparative Ethology and Evolution of the Sand Wasps. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).
[F09] Fisher, E. M. 2009. Asilidae (robber flies, assassin flies, moscas cazadoras, moscas ladronas). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 1 pp. 585–632. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.
[W81] Wood, G. C. 1981. Asilidae. In: McAlpine, J. F., B. V. Peterson, G. E. Shewell, H. J. Teskey, J. R. Vockeroth & D. S. Wood (eds) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 1 pp. 549–573. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.
[Z01] Zompro, O. 2001. A review of Eurycanthinae: Eurycanthini, with a key to genera, notes on the subfamily and designation of type species. Phasmid Studies 10 (1): 19–23.