Genus Lepidophora

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Superfamily Asiloidea

Family Bombyliidae (Bee Flies)

Subfamily Ecliminae

Genus Lepidophora

Explanation of Names

Lepidophora Westwood 1835

Greek 'scale-bearing'(1)

Numbers

3 spp. in our area, 8 total(2)

Range

New World (ON to Bolivia); in our area, 2 spp. widespread in e. US and one in TX(2)

L. lepidocera OH-IA to FL-TX

L. lutea ME-ON-MN to FL-LA

L. vetusta TX

Food

Larvae are kleptoparasites of solitary wasps (Vespidae, Sphecidae)(3)

See Also

Toxophora

Works Cited

1.	Composition of scientific words By R.W. Brown

2.	Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2003) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site

3.	Kleptoparasitism and phoresy in the Diptera By Sivinski J., Marshall S.A., Petersson E.

Contributed by Cotinis on 17 March, 2004 - 6:56am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, v belov
Last updated 15 April, 2012 - 4:16am

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