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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Bombyliinae » Bombyliini » Triploechus
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Bombyliid - Triploechus
Copyright © 2012 Aaron Schusteff

Bombyliid - Triploechus
Del Puerto Canyon, Stanislaus County, California, USA
May 7, 2011
Is this Triploecus? Note that, as illustrated in the wing diagram here and described in the salient Bombyliidae key couplets (12 & 13) of the Manual of Nearctic Diptera(1), the vein M1 ends in R5 some distance from the wing margin; R2+3 is curved upward apically by more than a right angle before meeting the costa. Also, there's a stump vein at the apical bend in R2+3.
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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 4 November, 2012 - 1:17am
Last updated 22 November, 2012 - 9:47pm

Male
No eye-gap = ♂
That's a nice wing drawing, but is the species name a typo? (T. novum) ...or is this an example of gender-agreement name changes. (T. novus)
… Bob Biagi, 18 March, 2019 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee Flies.
… Joel Kits, 22 November, 2012 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

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