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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Anthracinae » Anthracini » Xenox

Genus Xenox

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited
ID please... large unknown fly - Xenox tigrinus Hover Fly ID request - Xenox tigrinus Interesting fly - Xenox tigrinus Big Fly ID - Xenox tigrinus Xenox tigrinus Black and white with black and clear wings - looks like a bee of some sort? - Xenox tigrinus Hanging bee? fly - Xenox tigrinus Xenox tigrinus
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 Anthracini
Genus Xenox
Explanation of Names
Xenox Evenhuis 1985
Greek 'stranger, alien' (refers to the bizarre eyes?)
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 5 total(1)
Range
X. tigrinus is eastern (NH-ON to FL-TX), the rest in sw. US (TX-CA)(1)
Food
Ectoparasitoids of Xylocopa
Print References
Marston N. (1970) Revision of New World species of Anthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae) other than the Anthrax albofasciatus group. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 43: 1-148.
Works Cited
1.Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2015) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site
Contributed by Cotinis on 18 March, 2004 - 11:27am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Joel Kits, Hartmut Wisch, v belov
Last updated 8 March, 2017 - 10:26am

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