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Subfamily Tomomyzinae

Sonoma Spineflower visitor - Diptera 2 - Paracosmus edwardsii

Very Small Bonny Doon Bee Fly - Paracosmus edwardsii

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 Tomomyzinae

Numbers

13 spp. in 3 genera in our area, 50 spp. in 6 genera worldwide(1)

Identification

A key to our genera (Amphicosmus, Paracosmus, and Metacosmus) appears in Hall(1957).

Range

New World (15 spp.), Africa (20 spp.), Australia (15 spp.); in our area, all but one sp. in sw. US, Metacosmus mancipennis in ne. US (MA-NJ)(1)

Print References

Hall, J. C. (1957) Notes and descriptions of new California Bombyliidae (Diptera). Pan-Pac. Entomologist 33: 141–48. (Full Text)

Works Cited

1.	Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2015) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site

Contributed by Cotinis on 9 January, 2006 - 8:31am
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 16 June, 2021 - 12:53pm

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