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Family Bombyliidae - Bee Flies

Usiinae · Phthiriinae · Toxophorinae · Bombyliinae · Ecliminae

Subfamily Usiinae
Apolysis - female Apolysis - female Small wasp or fly? - Apolysis Usiinae...Oligodranes? - Apolysis Usiinae...Oligodranes? - Apolysis Usiinae...Oligodranes? - Apolysis Another striped fly from Peters Canyon - Apolysis Another striped fly from Peters Canyon - Apolysis

Subfamily Phthiriinae
Poecilognathus unimaculatus ?? Fly ?? Fly 19 Green insect on a cosmo, sucking out nectar Little yellow fly - Poecilognathus Fly - Poecilognathus unimaculatus Fly - Poecilognathus unimaculatus Phthiriinae?

Subfamily Toxophorinae
Bee Flies Mating on Fleabane - Geron - male - female Bee Fly - Toxophora Bee fly? - Toxophora Geron on buckwheat - Geron fly - Geron Bombyliidae? Possibly Geron sp?? - Geron is this some kind of mosquito? - Geron fly - Toxophora

Subfamily Bombyliinae
Conophorus collini - female Conophorus collini - female bee fly hovering - Bombylius major Bombylius albicapillus Bee Fly - Bombylius major bristle-nose Bee Fly - Conophorus fenestratus - female Hover Fly? - Bombylius major Orange County Bee Fly Archives - Bombylius fascialis or lancifer - Bombylius

Subfamily Ecliminae
Fly - Thevenetimyia harrisi Hunchback Bee fly - Lepidophora lutea T. notata Feeding at Mustard - Thevenetimyia notata - female Large Bee Fly - Thevenetimyia Thevenetimyia sp.? - Thevenetimyia Thevenetimyia luctifera - female Thevenetimyia muricata - female Lepidophora


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