Genus Exoprosopa

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

Orange County Bee Fly Archives #199 - Exoprosopa fasciata-group, at least temporarily - Exoprosopa

Exoprosopa fascipennis? - Exoprosopa fascipennis

Exoprosopa dorcadion - Exoprosopa decora

A low-contrast variation of Exoprosopa agassizii, or maybe E. titubans ... or neither? - Exoprosopa - male

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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