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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Anthracinae » Exoprosopini » Exoprosopa » Exoprosopa doris
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Bee Fly - Exoprosopa doris
Copyright © 2007 Phillip Ruttenbur

Bee Fly - Exoprosopa doris
Concho, Apache County, Arizona, USA
June 30, 2007
Size: 3/4 inch
Found on Prairie Zinnia (Zinnia grandiflora)

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Contributed by Phillip Ruttenbur on 3 July, 2007 - 9:10pm
Last updated 30 November, 2007 - 7:29am

Moved
Moved from Exoprosopa.
… Joel Kits, 29 November, 2007 - 10:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee Flies.
… Joel Kits, 9 September, 2007 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

Exoprosopa heros?
Could it be Exoprosopa heros?
http://www.museums.org.za/bio/insects/flies/bombyliidae/
… Phillip Ruttenbur, 4 July, 2007 - 8:39am login or register to post comments

Exoprosopa
Could this be Exoprosopa sp.?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/68681
The town of Concho is near the New Mexico border.
Species anyone?
… Phillip Ruttenbur, 4 July, 2007 - 8:33am login or register to post comments

 
Bee Flies: Fascinating creatures, but diverse and hard to ID
Buggz, thanks again for commenting on my bee fly post. I see you're really getting into this. The biggie with identifying bee flies is wing veins, aka venation. Abdomen pattern is less important. I'm certainly no expert on these, but you can pick up some general info and see a lot of different bee flies here: http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/diptera/Behavior.htm. Be sure to go back to the diptera index page to see the flies. (Note: Arrangement by wing pattern used here isn't the norm.)

Also see: http://www.giffbeaton.com/Bee%20Flies.htm
… Ron Hemberger, 4 July, 2007 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

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