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Species Sparnopolius confusus

Bee Fly on New England Aster - Sparnopolius confusus

Which beefly please? - Sparnopolius confusus

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 Conophorini

Genus Sparnopolius

Species confusus (Sparnopolius confusus)

Numbers

one of 4 species in this genus in North America listed at nearctica.com

S. confusus is the only species that occurs in the east

Range

most of United States plus Ontario

also occurs in Mexico

Remarks

page creation based on Neal Evenhuis' identification of this image

Internet References

distribution; PDF doc and type specimen locality [probably Mexico] (Neal Evenhuis and D.J. Greathead, World Catalog of Bee Flies, part 1)

Key to Bee Flies of the east with anatomical drawings (Herschel Raney, Arkansas)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 June, 2006 - 5:45pm

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