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

Genus Exoprosopa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Lesser Bee Fly - Exoprosopa fascipennis Bee Fly - Exoprosopa Exoprosopa - Exoprosopa butleri Fairly large beefly - Exoprosopa fasciata Black-bodied bee fly - Exoprosopa Doris' Bee Fly - Exoprosopa Exoprosopa fasciata? - Exoprosopa Exoprosopa fascipennis
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 Exoprosopini
Genus Exoprosopa
Explanation of Names
Exoprosopa Macquart, 1840
Numbers
~40 spp. in our area, ~340 total(1)
Identification
key to most spp. in (2)
Range
worldwide, much more diverse in the Old World, >50% of spp. in Africa; in our area, most spp. are western (esp. southwestern) and ~10 spp. occur east of the Mississippi River, of which E. decora & E. dorcadion are transcontinental(1)
Food
Cocoons of Sphecidae, Pompilidae and Tiphiidae. Also reported once for Scarabaeidae (Yeates)
See Also
Villa vs Exoprosopa wing venation:
vs.
Print References
Elmer D., Johnson L.M. (1958) New and insufficiently known Exoprosopa from the far west (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Great Basin Naturalist 18: 69-84. (Full text)
Works Cited
1.Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2015) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site
2.New Diptera from North and Central America
Curran C.H. 1930. Am. Mus. novitates 415: 1-16.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 13 April, 2004 - 9:16pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Aaron Schusteff, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 1 September, 2021 - 2:51am

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