Species Bombyliomyia soror

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Dark hairy tachinid - Bombyliomyia soror

Dark hairy tachinid - Bombyliomyia soror - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Oestroidea

Family Tachinidae (Parasitic Flies)

Subfamily Tachininae

Tribe Ernestiini

Genus Bombyliomyia

Species soror (Bombyliomyia soror)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hystricia soror Williston, 1886

Tachinalia hispida Curran, 1934 (1)

Explanation of Names

Bombyliomyia soror (Williston 1886)

Identification

From Curran's description of female Tachinalia hispida (2): "Robust, the abdomen broader than the thorax and not much longer than wide. Eyes with long hair; parafacials haired; front rather narrow, with two pairs of orbitals; ocellars long, outer verticals absent; cheeks wide; face retreating, the oral margins produced; ridges bare; proboscis short; palpi slightly clavate; antennae reaching the lowest fifth of the face; arista bare. Acrosticals 2-3; dorsocentrals 3-3; posterior sublateral absent, posthumeral present; sternopleurals 2-1; prosternum bare; scutellum with many spinose bristles. Apical cell ending moderately before the wing-tip; third vein bristled basally. Abdomen almost wholly covered with spinose bristles. Head with cinereous pollen, thorax thinly pollinose; scutellum reddish, abdomen castaneous. Length 10-11 mm".

Range

w. NA (BC to CA-NM & Mexico)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico

2.	The families and genera of North American Diptera Charles H. Curran. 1934. Ballou Press, New York, NY.

Contributed by v belov on 26 May, 2015 - 2:43pm
Additional contributions by kschnei
Last updated 6 July, 2019 - 4:52pm

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