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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Anthracinae » Villini » Lepidanthrax
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Small Bee Fly on Nemacladus - Lepidanthrax
Copyright © 2011 Aaron Schusteff

Small Bee Fly on Nemacladus - Lepidanthrax
Pinnacles National Monument, San Benito County, California, USA
June 14, 2011
Size: BL approx. 7mm
Bee fly visiting flower of Nemacladus secundiflorus (Campanulaceae), growing in a dry wash at Pinnacles National Monument.

Nemacladus is a fascinating genus with interesting floral morphology, presumably connected with insect pollination. So I'm especially interested in observing, documenting, and identifying insect interactions with flowers of these plants.

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 5 July, 2011 - 7:49pm
Last updated 13 July, 2023 - 1:56pm

Revisiting this post
...it appears to key in Hall(1)(1976) to the "Lautus group" on pg. 292, and to species Lepidanthrax oribates in the key to females of that group on pg. 329. (I assume this is a female from the lack of shiny scales on the distal tergites.)
… Aaron Schusteff, 14 June, 2021 - 3:12am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee Flies.
… Aaron Schusteff, 6 July, 2011 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

ID
This is Lepidanthrax.
… Andy Calderwood, 6 July, 2011 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Many Thanks, Andy
I was hoping you'd see this one :-)

I'll move it to the Lepidanthrax page.

BTW, if you know of any good references for this group I'd be very grateful for any suggestions. I have a copy of Hull(1)...but its circumscriptions are quite out of date now.
… Aaron Schusteff, 6 July, 2011 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Lepidanthrax
Hall revised this genus in 1976 in the Transactions of the Am Ent Soc, vol 102:289-371. He did a thorough job. I'm sure there are a few undescribed species, but not a ton unaccounted for.
… Andy Calderwood, 7 July, 2011 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

 
Great...Thank You
Couldn't find it online (sometime I luck out, finding PDF's or uploads to places like the Biodiversity Heritage Library web site). But I'll try to look it up next time I'm in a good library.

Postscript: Oops, should have checked the BugGuide Lepidanthrax info page first...I can get it through JSTOR :-)
… Aaron Schusteff, 7 July, 2011 - 12:23am login or register to post comments

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