The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Some are colloquially known as bomber flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen...
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Xenox tigrinus (category Bombyliidae)
The tiger bee fly, Xenox tigrinus, is an insect of the family Bombyliidae (bee flies) found in the eastern United States and southern Ontario. It formerly...
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cosmopolitan distribution, occurring worldwide. It includes the family Bombyliidae, the bee flies, which are parasitoids, and the Asilidae, the robber flies...
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1922 novel by Joseph Hergesheimer Cytherea (fly), a genus of bee flies (Bombyliidae) Cytherea chione, or Callista chione, the smooth clam Cytherea multistriata...
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Males of fly species such as Cuterebra, many hover flies, bee flies (Bombyliidae) and fruit flies (Tephritidae) maintain territories within which they...
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Bombylius major (category Bombyliidae)
parasitically feed on the grubs. Bombylius major is part of the family Bombyliidae, with a reported 6000 species worldwide. The subfamily Bombyliinae contains...
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(flower-loving flies) Apsilocephalidae Apystomyiidae Asilidae (robber flies) Bombyliidae (bee flies) Evocoidae Hilarimorphidae (hilarimorphid flies) Mydidae (mydas...
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arthropods. The larvae may be parasitized by nematodes, flies of the families Bombyliidae and Tachinidae, and Hymenoptera in the family Pteromalidae. When fully...
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Poecilanthrax lucifer (category Bombyliidae)
Poecilanthrax lucifer is a species of bee flies (insects in the family Bombyliidae). "Poecilanthrax lucifer Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System...
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(flower-loving flies) Apsilocephalidae Apystomyiidae Asilidae (robber flies) Bombyliidae (bee flies) Evocoidae Hilarimorphidae (hilarimorphid flies) Mydidae (mydas...
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(flower-loving flies) Apsilocephalidae Apystomyiidae Asilidae (robber flies) Bombyliidae (bee flies) Evocoidae Hilarimorphidae (hilarimorphid flies) Mydidae (mydas...
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Neacreotrichus (category Bombyliidae)
Neacreotrichus is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are about 13 described species in Neacreotrichus, found in the United States and...
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Gertrude Ricardo (section Diptera: Family Bombyliidae)
Gertrude Ricardo (11 September 1862 - 31 October 1950) was a British entomologist and taxonomist who specialised in Diptera, particularly the families...
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The following is a list of the larger Brachycera recorded in Britain, this includes the soldierflies and their allies. Xylophagus ater - common awl-fly...
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Paramonovius (category Bombyliidae genera)
Paramonovius nightking is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae that is endemic to a restricted area of western Australia. It is the only member...
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Systoechus (category Bombyliidae)
Systoechus is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are more than 120 described species in Systoechus. List of Systoechus species "Systoechus...
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(flower-loving flies) Apsilocephalidae Apystomyiidae Asilidae (robber flies) Bombyliidae (bee flies) Evocoidae Hilarimorphidae (hilarimorphid flies) Mydidae (mydas...
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around flowers, lending to their common name. Bee flies of the family Bombyliidae often mimic Hymenoptera and hover around flowers, as well, rendering...
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largest of which is the Tachinidae (some 9,200 species), followed by the Bombyliidae (some 4,500 species), along with the Pipunculidae and the Conopidae,...
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several families of flies: Syrphidae, Asilidae, Tabanidae, Oestridae, and Bombyliidae (Gabritschevsky, 1926). Cott, Hugh (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals...
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(flower-loving flies) Apsilocephalidae Apystomyiidae Asilidae (robber flies) Bombyliidae (bee flies) Evocoidae Hilarimorphidae (hilarimorphid flies) Mydidae (mydas...
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(flower-loving flies) Apsilocephalidae Apystomyiidae Asilidae (robber flies) Bombyliidae (bee flies) Evocoidae Hilarimorphidae (hilarimorphid flies) Mydidae (mydas...
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Hemipenthes sinuosa (category Bombyliidae)
sinuosa, the sinuous bee fly, is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae, found in North America. "Hemipenthes sinuosa species Information". BugGuide...
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"Phthiria sharafi sp. nov., a new record of the subfamily Phthiriinae (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Saudi Arabia", Zootaxa, 3872 (4), Magnolia Press: 387–392...
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Mariobezziinae (category Bombyliidae)
Mariobezziinae is a subfamily of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are about 10 genera and at least 50 described species in Mariobezziinae. These...
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Anthrax (fly) (category Bombyliidae genera)
F. M. Hull (1973). Bee flies of the world. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 1–687. ISBN 0-87474-131-9...
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flies), Tabanidae (horseflies), Oestridae (bot or warble flies) and Bombyliidae (bee flies, such as Bombylius major) all include Batesian mimics of bumblebees...
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"Phthiria sharafi sp. nov., a new record of the subfamily Phthiriinae (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Saudi Arabia". Zootaxa. 3872 (4). Magnolia Press: 387–392...
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authority for establishing the family in 1802. The Asilidae, together with Bombyliidae and Therevidae, are the most representative families of the superfamily...
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Antoniinae (category Bombyliidae)
Antoniinae is a subfamily of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are at least 4 genera and 20 described species in Antoniinae. These four genera...
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