Species Conophorus melanoceratus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Fuzzy-Muzzled Bombyliid - Conophorus melanoceratus - male

Fuzzy-Muzzled Bombyliid - Conophorus melanoceratus - female

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 Bombyliinae

Tribe Conophorini

Genus Conophorus

Species melanoceratus (Conophorus melanoceratus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Conophorus melanoceratus Bigot 1892

Ploas serrata Coquillett 1894

Conophorus serratus (Coquillett)

Explanation of Names

From the Greek roots: melano = black; ceratus = horned. Presumably refers to the black antennae.

Identification

The following characters for C. melanoceratus are gleaned from the keys and descriptions in Priddy(1958) and Hall & Evenhuis(1)(1984):

Metapleura bare (on area just ventral to squamae and anterior to base of halter); first antennal segment usually less than half the length of the antenna; knob of haltere white; wing not strongly marked (darkened along costal margin, gradually becoming more hyaline beyond); dorsum of abdomen and scutellum not shining; 3 submarginal cells; ocellar tubercle with black hairs; proboscis long (≥ antennae); abdominal dorsum white pilose...with long black hairs along posterior margins of the tergites II to VII.

Range

California, Idaho, Oregon, Utah(2)

Works Cited

1.	Homeodactyla and Asilomorpha: Bombyliidae, Vol. 5, Part 13, in 'Flies of the Nearctic Region', edited by G. C. D. Griffiths Jack C. Hall & Neal L. Evenhuis. 1980. E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart.

2.	World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera : Bombyliidae) Neal L. Evenhuis. 1999. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 804 pp.

Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 15 June, 2015 - 4:42am
Last updated 19 June, 2015 - 1:33am

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