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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Anthracinae » Villini » Hemipenthes » Hemipenthes webberi

Species Hemipenthes webberi

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References

Flies-Hemipenthes webberi - Hemipenthes webberi

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 Anthracinae

Tribe Villini

Genus Hemipenthes

Species webberi (Hemipenthes webberi)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Villa webberi Johnson 1919

Explanation of Names

Hemipenthes webberi (Johnson 1919)

Size

6 to 10 mm long.

Identification

Head: Round, black with a few yellowish flecks. Females and males identical, except for space between the eyes at top of head.

Antenna: Black, very short.

Thorax: Black hair with some yellowish flecks; a few white hairs at side edges below the wing bases, barely noticeable.

Wings: Brown on outer (costa) edge and inward to a little over half the width of wing. Tips clear. Main ID: Inner wing edge always clear (anal cell).

Legs: Black. Tips of front and middle thigh (femora) yellow. Hind shin (tibiae) yellow. Feet black.

Abdomen: Black with some white at sides of 1st and last segments.

Note: Conflicting descriptions of abdomen from all 3 authors.

Food

Known larval hosts for Hemipenthes in general include both Lepidoptera and diprionid sawflies and the tachinid flies and ichneumonoid wasps parasitizing them.

Remarks

Types:

Holotype as Villa webberi male by Johnson, 1919. Type Locality: Massachusetts. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

See Also

Hemipenthes morioides has brown on wing extending to inner margin. The inner margin area (anal cell or auxillary cell) is clear on H. webberi.

Print References

Psyche, 1919, Vol. 26 by Johnson, pp. 11-12.

Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 2008, #6 Bee Flies by Kits, et al., pg. 12.

Zootaxa, 2009 #2074 by Hernandez, pp. 42-43.

Contributed by Joel Kits on 27 March, 2007 - 9:43pm
Additional contributions by v belov, lee_penner
Last updated 29 June, 2020 - 12:08pm

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