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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Bombyliinae » Conophorini » Conophorus » Conophorus fenestratus
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What species of fly is this? - Conophorus fenestratus - male
Copyright © 2012 Cynthia Bingham Keiser

What species of fly is this? - Conophorus fenestratus - Male
Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
March 27, 2012
Weed at Daley Ranch
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Contributed by Cynthia Bingham Keiser on 28 March, 2012 - 2:28pm
Last updated 20 April, 2018 - 11:38pm

Moved
Moved from Bee Flies.
… Aaron Schusteff, 9 April, 2012 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

Conophorus
I believe the hairy, basally-thickened, parallel and nearly touching antennae here are a distinctive character of the genus Conophorus. Wing venation matches Conophorus fenestratus ...compare with:
… Aaron Schusteff, 3 April, 2012 - 12:30am login or register to post comments

 
ID
Correct: C. fenestratus.
… Andy Calderwood, 9 April, 2012 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Awesome. Thank you both!
… Cynthia Bingham Keiser, 9 April, 2012 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

 
PS
From the fact that the eyes meet at the top of the head, this is a male. Female Conophorus have eyes well-separated. (This eye-separation character often, but NOT always, distinguishes the sexes in Diptera.)
… Aaron Schusteff, 9 April, 2012 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

 
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… Aaron Schusteff, 9 April, 2012 - 11:43am login or register to post comments

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