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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Bombyliinae » Conophorini » Aldrichia
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not Lepidophora - Aldrichia
Copyright © 2017 Paul Bedell

not Lepidophora - Aldrichia
Highland County, Virginia, USA
June 12, 2017
I gave it this title as when I saw it, I thought of that bombyliid, but the proboscis does not fit. Anyway, help appreciated. Perched in grassy meadow near woodland edge. Altitude about 3000 ft.

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not Lepidophora - Aldrichia not Lepidophora - Aldrichia
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Contributed by Paul Bedell on 13 June, 2017 - 10:59am
Last updated 9 November, 2018 - 3:17pm

thanks, Andy
Moved from Thevenetimyia.
… v belov, 9 November, 2018 - 3:17pm login or register to post comments

ID
Looks like Aldrichia.
… Andy Calderwood, 9 November, 2018 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks! I followed up on thi
Thanks! I followed up on this first in MND where couplet 11 on P. 593 describes Aldrichia as "R2+3 arising from R4+5 at a right angle and close to crossvein R-M (Fig. 17). Then in the original species description by Painter 1939 (Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci.) he says "differs from A. ehrmanii in its darker wings, black pilose occiput, golden tomentose thorax, and in the proportions of the antenna." All of these can be made out in the photos, so seems certainly A. auripuncta.
… Paul Bedell, 12 November, 2018 - 6:28am login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively; awesome beast
Moved from Flies.
… v belov, 13 June, 2017 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

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