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Bombylius albicapillus - female
Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Bombylius albicapillus - Female
Dry Creek drainage, Lockwood Valley Road, Ventura County, California, USA
April 7, 2006
Size: ~ 10mm
ID by Neal Evenhuis (Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI).
Type locality: California
I also observed (and photographed) specimen of the same species on Burton Mesa (next to Vandenberg Village,Santa Barbara County), and again at the same location as the present specimen on May 5, 2006.

Please see also the photo of a male of this species:
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 13 May, 2006 - 11:24pm
Last updated 1 June, 2006 - 7:13am

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This is B. curtirhynchus. Note the very short beak, the color comes out to the tip of r2+3, the white dorsal stripe, the weaker spotting than in albicapillus.
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