Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Poecilognathus
Genus
Poecilognathus
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon
(Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily
Asiloidea
Family
Bombyliidae (Bee Flies)
Subfamily
Phthiriinae
Tribe
Poecilognathini
Genus
Poecilognathus
Explanation of Names
Poecilognathus
Jaennicke 1867
Numbers
8 spp. in our area, 14 total
(
1
)
Range
New World (se. Canada to Costa Rica + 3 spp. in Chile); in our area,
P. sulphureus
is widespread (ON-GA-AL to OR-CA),
P. scolopax
CA to MN-AR,
P. punctipennis
GA-FL, the rest mostly in sw. US
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2015) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site
Contributed by
Martin Hauser
on 18 May, 2006 - 2:47pm
Additional contributions by
Beatriz Moisset
,
v belov
Last updated 14 April, 2012 - 12:42am