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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Cythereinae » Pantarbes » Pantarbes earinus

Species Pantarbes earinus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited
Pantarbes - Pantarbes earinus - male Pantarbes - Pantarbes earinus - female Pantarbes - Pantarbes earinus - female Cute Pantarbes - Pantarbes earinus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Bombyliidae (Bee Flies)
Subfamily Cythereinae
Genus Pantarbes
Species earinus (Pantarbes earinus)
Explanation of Names
Pantarbes earinus Hall & Evenhuis 1984
earinus, 'vernal'; refers to the species' spring occurrence(1)
Size
~5 mm
Identification
(1)Abdominal dorsum entirely white pilose; antennae proximate, not widely separated (their bases not further apart than length of 1st antennal segment).
Female: eyes separated by a bit more than 3 x width of ocellar tubercle; brown tranverse band of hairs across top of frons/forward edge of vertex; body, face, frons densely white pilose.
Male: eyes separated by a bit more than width of ocellar tubercle, the latter black; body less densely white pilose, with black ground color.
Range
w US (CA to ID-WY-NM) & Baja(1)(2)
Habitat
Arid lands
Season
Spring
Works Cited
1.Homeodactyla and Asilomorpha: Bombyliidae, Vol. 5, Part 13, in 'Flies of the Nearctic Region', edited by G. C. D. Griffiths
Jack C. Hall & Neal L. Evenhuis. 1980. E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart.
2.World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera : Bombyliidae)
Neal L. Evenhuis. 1999. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 804 pp.
Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 31 January, 2016 - 11:08am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 May, 2023 - 5:32pm

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