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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Anthracinae » Villini » Paravilla

Genus Paravilla

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Paravilla - male Paravilla - Paravilla syrtis Paravilla fulvicoma - female OC Bee Fly Archives - sandy colored fly - Paravilla fulvicoma Iszak's Bee Fly #3 for ID - Paravilla splendida Bee Fly - Paravilla Paravilla syrtis Bee Fly - Paravilla
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 Anthracinae
Tribe Villini
Genus Paravilla
Explanation of Names
Paravilla Painter 1933
Numbers
46 spp. in our area, ~60 total(1)
Identification
Face conically projecting; fore-tibiae with darkened bristles; antennae slenderly-conically pointed; wing veins CuA2 and A converging toward (but not meeting before) wing margin (e.g. see right-most lower veins here)
Review of the genus:(2)
Range
New World, mostly nearctic; in our area, w. US, with 2 spp. ranging north to BC, P. palliata & P. spaldingi ranging east to MI-OH-GA, and P. separata restricted to the Midwest + GA-AL(1)
Food
Larvae are parasites of ground-nesting bees.
Works Cited
1.Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2015) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site
2.A review of the North and Central American species of Paravilla Painter (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
Hall J.C. 1981. University of California Publications in Entomology 92: 1–198.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 29 March, 2007 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, Hartmut Wisch, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 4 August, 2014 - 11:56am

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