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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Ecliminae » Lepidophora » Lepidophora lutea
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bee fly - Lepidophora lutea
Copyright © 2006 Ilona L.

bee fly - Lepidophora lutea
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 3, 2006
I spotted this strange bee or fly this morning on some flowers. If anyone can identify this insect, I would really appreciate it.
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 3 August, 2006 - 11:29pm
Last updated 13 December, 2010 - 11:01am

Now identified as L. lutea -
Now identified as L. lutea - see comment for
… Ilona L., 28 August, 2008 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scaly Bee Fly.
… Ilona L., 28 August, 2008 - 2:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Lepidophora.
… Beatriz Moisset, 12 September, 2006 - 6:58am login or register to post comments

Hunchback bee fly, I think
Genus Lepidophora. Compare:



I was off on a wrong track browsing clearwing moths for a while, but I knew I'd seen this somewhere on the pages before, and when I did a search on hunchback this popped up.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 4 August, 2006 - 6:30am login or register to post comments

 
Great match
Great match, Hannah. Looking at those "scales" at the end of the abdomen, I too, was reminded of Clearwing Moths.

Ilona: "what Hannah said." An interesting find! Keep them coming.
… Stephen_WV, 4 August, 2006 - 6:57am login or register to post comments

Robber Fly
Looks like a Robber Fly to me. "Furrier" than your average Robber Fly, and the antennae are longer than those of the average Robber too. Nevertheless I think that is what you have here. I hope someone else will weigh in too.
… Stephen_WV, 4 August, 2006 - 4:25am login or register to post comments

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