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Bee Fly - Exoprosopa doris

Bee Fly - Exoprosopa doris
Chino Hills Sate Park, Orange County, California, USA
September 6, 2007

Moved
Moved from Exoprosopa.

Exoprosopa, I'd say.
This just IDed. Wing is a bit different than what we're used to seeing in this genus.

 
ID - E. doris
This pattern is the "fascipennis group" wing pattern which features a trio of transverse bands which join near the wing's leading edge. The other is the annoyingly named "fasciata group" which has the wing colored only along the leading edge to various degrees. Almost all US species belong to one or the other group. A few exceptions are the appropriately named anomala and the rare fumosa (look for it below Madera Canyon, AZ). E. doris varies greatly with geography: The Western forms have highly broken bands which render a complex pattern. The species has been hiding under thick, chocolate brown wing bands in Florida, and in the Sonora Desert of western AZ (like, say, Dateland or Tacna), it can have no wing color at all.

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