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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Cythereinae » Pantarbes » Pantarbes capito
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Bombyliid (Bombylius sp.?) on Layia platyglossa - Pantarbes capito - female
Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Bombyliid (Bombylius sp.?) on Layia platyglossa - Pantarbes capito - Female
Cottonwood Canyon, Sierra Madre Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
April 9, 2003
Added this top view of the same specimen.

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Bombyliid (Bombylius sp.?) on Laya platyglossa - Pantarbes capito - female Bombyliid (Bombylius sp.?) on Layia platyglossa - Pantarbes capito - female
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 16 February, 2006 - 6:28pm
Last updated 31 March, 2009 - 11:51pm

Pantarbes capito
This is a member of the genus Pantarbes
… Neal Evenhuis, 3 June, 2006 - 2:41am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Neal,
I had forgotten about this one. Well, I looked for this fly again this spring in the same location, found it, but didn't get a decent photo.
… Hartmut Wisch, 3 June, 2006 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

 
P. capito
Thanks for the ID, Neal; images moved from family page to new species page
… Robin McLeod, 3 June, 2006 - 4:45pm login or register to post comments

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