Genus Xenox

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Horse fly of some sort? - Xenox tigrinus

picture winged fly of some sort - Xenox tigrinus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora))

Superfamily Asiloidea

Family Bombyliidae (Bee Flies)

Subfamily Anthracinae

Tribe Anthracini

Genus Xenox

Explanation of Names

Xenox is apparently from the Greek for "stranger" or "alien". Perhaps this refers to the bizarre eyes. The author of the genus is Dr. Neal Evenhuis, an entomologist at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii.

Numbers

Four North American species are listed by nearctica.com and Arnett, p. 880. (1)

Remarks

Four North American species are listed at nearctica.com. The genus combines species formerly placed in three genera:

Xenox Evenhuis 1985:

Xenox delila Loew 1869 (Argyromoeba)
Xenox simson Fabricius 1805 (Anthrax)
Xenox tigrinus De Geer 1776 (Nemotelus)
Xenox xylocopae Marston 1970 (Anthrax)

Note: Acc. to Neal Evenhuis (pers. communication - HW) the nearctic species of Xenox are those listed in the World Catalog (2):

delila , habrosus , nigritus (nearctic part of Mexico), tigrinus , and xylocopae. Neither Nearctica nor ITIS are up to date in this respect. (HW)

Print References

Arnett, p. 880 (1)

Evenhuis, pp.334-335 (2)

Marston, Norman. 1970. Revision of New World Species of Anthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae) other than the Anthrax albofasciatus Group. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 43, 148 pp.

Evenhuis, N.L. 1985. The Status of the Genera of the Tribe Anthracini (Diptera: Bombyliidae). International Journal of Entomology, Vol.27, no.1-2:162-169.

Internet References

Download the World Catalog of Bee Flies as PDF .

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

2.	World Catalog of Bee Flies: Diptera : bombyliidae By Neal L. Evenhuis

Contributed by Cotinis on 18 March, 2004 - 11:27am
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch
Last updated 13 September, 2007 - 12:17am

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