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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Usiinae » Apolysis
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Bee fly ? - Apolysis - male
Copyright © 2005 David A Burke

Bee fly ? - Apolysis - Male
Cody, Park County, Wyoming, USA
May 19, 2005
Size: 1/8 inch
NW Wyoming 8000 ft elevation. Tiny fly. Last July I posted a similar fly that Paul said is a bee fly. http://bugguide.net/node/view/9500
Any ideas? I get lost with wing venations.

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Contributed by David A Burke on 16 June, 2005 - 9:56pm
Last updated 10 November, 2005 - 4:06pm

Thanks for carefulness
I had almost shamed myself by starting to tell you to get your facts right about Diptera but fortunately I still have some carefulness in me. I was about to answer how you could confuse a dance fly with a bee fly but before i could do that I had to fill you in on which dance fly it was. I must admit, it was an unknown genus to me, but hey, what do I really know about the Nearctic? The result of running the image through the key was unsatisfactory. The genus Meghyperus (in Europe now in Atelestidae) has a similar, though slightly different wing venation but very different antennae. So, to make sure I did check the other orthorrhaphous families and there popped up the bee fly genus Oligodranes.

Paul

http://www.diptera.info
… Paul Beuk, 15 August, 2005 - 6:26am login or register to post comments

 
Oligodranes in not found in North America
This is a representative of the genus Apolysis (found worldwide). A number of species used to be placed in Olgidranes but after examination of true Oligodranes, it was found that Oligtodranes is restricted to the Middle East and Western Asia.
… Neal Evenhuis, 3 June, 2006 - 2:20am login or register to post comments

 
Apolysis
I changed the name of the genus page from Oligodranes to Apolysis, and added some comments to the Info page.
… Robin McLeod, 4 June, 2006 - 12:28am login or register to post comments

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