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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Bombyliinae » Bombyliini » Bombylius
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Bombylius sp. - Bombylius - female
Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Bombylius sp. - Bombylius - Female
Dry Creek drainage, near Lockwood Valley Road., Ventura County, California, USA
May 5, 2006
Size: ~ 7 mm
Nectaring in Phacelia douglasii. I also observed this little greenish bee fly in a couple of other locations, same day, in Wagon Road Canyon.
ID by Neal Evenhuis (Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI).
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 14 May, 2006 - 12:30am

ID?
This might be the small Triploechus sackenii, a very common, rather drab little So Cal fly.
… Andy Calderwood, 5 December, 2007 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Ah, this would explain
the notch in the middle of the eye's postmargin. Common or not, its still a new genus for me to learn. Thanks, Andy! If I catch some holding still long enough next spring, I'll see whether it has the three submarginal cells described in Hull (1).
… Hartmut Wisch, 5 December, 2007 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

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