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

Species Poecilanthrax arethusa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Works Cited
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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 Poecilanthrax
Species arethusa (Poecilanthrax arethusa)
Explanation of Names
Poecilanthrax arethusa (Osten Sacken 1886)
Range
w NA (NE‒WY to TX‒CA) to Panama(1)
Works Cited
1.World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera : Bombyliidae)
Neal L. Evenhuis. 1999. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 804 pp.
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 30 November, 2007 - 5:08pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 August, 2023 - 2:39pm

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