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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Anthracinae » Villini » Paravilla » Paravilla fumida
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Reality Check: Is this Paravilla? - Paravilla fumida
Copyright © 2009 Ron Hemberger

Reality Check: Is this Paravilla? - Paravilla fumida
Nix Nature Center, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, USA
June 21, 2009
Unless this is something out of the ordinary, I'll probably frass. Tapered abdomen gives me pause, and shading on the wings seems similarly odd. Your take?
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 23 June, 2009 - 11:02am
Last updated 23 June, 2009 - 11:48pm

Looks Like
Either a Chrysanthrax cypris or something that knows one
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 23 June, 2009 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Robert.
I forgot to query the fly as to known associates and pledge to do better next time. I have a hunch C. cypris ain't from around here.
… Ron Hemberger, 23 June, 2009 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Closest CA relative...
...I think would be C. vanus, but that doesn't look all that similar.

Don't quite know what to make of the tapered abdomen and more heavily shaded wings, but I'd make a haphazard guess that this is another Paravilla fulvicoma. I'm sure someone will give us an answer soon...
… Harsi S. Parker, 23 June, 2009 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

 
ID
This is Paravilla fumida. Was it seen to visit Camissonia sp? I have noticed a strong preference.
… Andy Calderwood, 23 June, 2009 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

 
There was a lot of that plant around it.
I didn't see it visiting any flowers, but it was flying low to the ground.

Thanks for the ID; this is another bee fly first for me.
… Ron Hemberger, 23 June, 2009 - 11:47pm login or register to post comments

 
New fly
Cool, it's always fun to notch a new one. Maybe I can get out and do the same this weekend.
… Andy Calderwood, 24 June, 2009 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Hope so, Andy.
I'll be lookin' too.
… Ron Hemberger, 24 June, 2009 - 7:59pm login or register to post comments

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