Genus Poecilognathus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

small white fly on flower - Poecilognathus

Cool bee fly? Poecilognathus? - Poecilognathus

Poecilognathus sulphurea ? - Poecilognathus

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 Phthiriinae

Tribe Poecilognathini

Genus Poecilognathus

Explanation of Names

Poecilognathus Jaennicke 1867

Numbers

9 spp. in our area, 15 total(1)(2)

Range

New World (se. Canada to Costa Rica + 3 spp. in Chile); in our area, P. sulphureus is widespread (ON-GA-AL to OR-CA), P. scolopax CA to MN-AR, P. punctipennis GA-FL, the rest mostly in sw. US(1)

Works Cited

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

2.	A new species of Poecilognathus Jaennicke, 1867 (Diptera: Bombyliidae: Phthiriinae) from a known but unknown locality Neal L. Evenhuis. 2024. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers.

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 18 May, 2006 - 2:47pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 1 July, 2024 - 9:44am

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