Genus Xenox

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited

Big black and white fly - Xenox tigrinus

Xenox -- freshly emerged from carpenter bee tunnel in rafters - 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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