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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora) » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Bombyliinae » Bombyliini » Anastoechus » Anastoechus melanohalteralis

Species Anastoechus melanohalteralis

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gray bee fly - Anastoechus melanohalteralis gray bee fly - Anastoechus melanohalteralis
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 Bombyliinae
Tribe Bombyliini
Genus Anastoechus
Species melanohalteralis (Anastoechus melanohalteralis)
Numbers
one of 4 species in this genus in North America listed at nearctica.com
Range
western United States (AZ, CA, CO, ID, NM, NV, TX, UT) and Mexico
Remarks
page creation based on Neal Evenhuis' identification of this image
Internet References
distribution; PDF doc and type specimen locality (Neal Evenhuis and D.J. Greathead, World Catalog of Bee Flies, part 1)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 June, 2006 - 5:16pm

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