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Bombyliidae is a large family
Family

Family denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," some cultural anthropology have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts r...
 of flies
Fly

True flies are insects of the Order Diptera , possessing a single pair of insect wing on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax....
 with hundreds of genera
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
, although their life cycles are not well known. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen
Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder consisting of Gametophyte , which produce the male gametes of spermatophyta. A hard coat covering the pollen grain protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement between the stamens of the flower to the pistil of the next flower....
, thus are pollinator
Pollinator

A pollinator is the biotic agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female carpel of a flower to accomplish fertilization or syngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain....
s of flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s. They superficially resemble bee
Bee

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyly lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila....
s, thus are commonly called bee flies, and this may offer the adults some protection from predators.

The larval stages are predators or parasitoid
Parasitoid

A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its biological life cycle attached to or within a single host organism which it ultimately kills in the process....
s of other insect eggs and larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetle
Beetle

Beetles are the group of insects with the largest number of known species. They are placed in the order Coleoptera , which contains more described species than in any other order in the animal, constituting about 25% of all known life-forms....
s or wasp
WAsP

WAsP is a PC program for predicting wind climates, wind resources, and power productions from wind turbines and wind farms. The predictions are based on wind data measured at stations in the same region....
s/solitary bees.






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Bombyliidae is a large family
Family

Family denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," some cultural anthropology have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts r...
 of flies
Fly

True flies are insects of the Order Diptera , possessing a single pair of insect wing on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax....
 with hundreds of genera
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
, although their life cycles are not well known. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen
Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder consisting of Gametophyte , which produce the male gametes of spermatophyta. A hard coat covering the pollen grain protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement between the stamens of the flower to the pistil of the next flower....
, thus are pollinator
Pollinator

A pollinator is the biotic agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female carpel of a flower to accomplish fertilization or syngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain....
s of flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s. They superficially resemble bee
Bee

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyly lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila....
s, thus are commonly called bee flies, and this may offer the adults some protection from predators.

The larval stages are predators or parasitoid
Parasitoid

A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its biological life cycle attached to or within a single host organism which it ultimately kills in the process....
s of other insect eggs and larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetle
Beetle

Beetles are the group of insects with the largest number of known species. They are placed in the order Coleoptera , which contains more described species than in any other order in the animal, constituting about 25% of all known life-forms....
s or wasp
WAsP

WAsP is a PC program for predicting wind climates, wind resources, and power productions from wind turbines and wind farms. The predictions are based on wind data measured at stations in the same region....
s/solitary bees. Where most often in the insect world parasitoids are highly specific in the host species that they will infect, some bombyliids are opportunistic and will use a variety of hosts.

While bombyliids have a great variety of species, rarely are individuals of any one species abundant, and this is perhaps one of the poorest known families of insect
Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s relative to its size. There are at least 4,500 described species, and probably thousands as of yet undescribed.

Species include:

Major bee-fly (Bombylius major
Bombylius major

The large bee fly, Bombylius major, is a bee mimic. The eggs are flicked by the adult female toward the entrance of the underground nests of solitary bees and wasp....
)
Williston's bee-fly
Poecilanthrax willistoni

Poecilanthrax willistoni, Williston's bee fly or sand dune bee fly, is a member of the Bombyliidae insect family. This family includes the bee flies, Diptera that have developed mimic characteristics to avoid predators....
 (Poecilanthrax willistoni)
Alkali bee fly (Heterostylum robustum)

Genera

  • Acanthogeron Bezzi, 1925
  • Acreophthiria Evenhuis, 1986
  • Acreotrichus Macquart, 1840
  • Acrophthalmyda Bigot, 1858
  • Adelidea Macquart, 1840
  • Adelogenys Hesse, 1938
  • Aldrichia Coquillett, 1894
  • Alepidophora Cockerell, 1909
  • Aleucosia Edwards, 1934
  • Alomatia Cockerell, 1914
  • Amictites Hennig, 1966
  • Amictus Wiedemann
    Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann

    Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann , was a Germany physician, historian, natural history and entomology. He is best known for his studies of world Diptera, but he also studied Hymenoptera and Coleoptera, although far less expertly....
    , 1817
  • Amphicosmus Coquillett, 1891
  • Anastoechus Osten-Sacken, 1877
  • Anisotamia Macquart, 1840
  • Anthrax Scopoli, 1763
  • Antonia Loew, 1856
  • Antoniaustralia Becker, 1913
  • Apatomyza Wiedemann, 1820
  • Aphoebantus Loew
    Hermann Loew

    Friedrich Hermann Loew was a Germany entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including Fly, mosquitoes, gnats and midge s....
    , 1872
  • Apolysis Loew, 1860
  • Astrophanes Osten Sacken, 1877
  • Atrichochira Hesse, 1956
  • Australiphthiria Evenhuis, 1986
  • Australoechus Greathead, 1995
  • Balaana Lambkin & Yeates, 2003
  • Beckerellus Greathead, 1995
  • Bombomyia Greathead, 1995
  • Bombylella Greathead, 1995
  • Bombylisoma Rondani, 1856
  • Bombylius
    Bombylius

    Bombylius is a large genus of Diptera belonging to the family Bombyliidae, known as the bee-flies, due to their striking resemblance to bee and bumblebees, and are distributed through environments world-wide....
     Linnaeus, 1758
  • Brachyanax Evenhuis, 1981
  • Brachydemia Hull, 1973
  • Bromoglycis Hull, 1971
  • Brychosoma Hull, 1973
  • Bryodemina Hull, 1973
  • Cacoplox Hull, 1970
  • Caecanthrax Greathead, 1981
  • Callostoma Macquart, 1840
  • Callynthrophora Schiner, 1868
  • Canariellum Strand, 1928
  • Chalcochiton Loew, 1844
  • Choristus Walker, 1852
  • Chrysanthrax Osten Sacken, 1886
  • Colossoptera Hull, 1973
  • Comptosia Macquart, 1840
  • Conomyza Hesse, 1956
  • Cononedys Hermann, 1907
  • Conophorina Becker, 1920
  • Conophorus Meigen, 1803
  • Corsomyza Wiedemann, 1820
  • Coryprosopa Hesse, 1956
  • Crocidium Loew, 1860
  • Cryomyia Hull, 1973
  • Cyananthrax Painter, 1959
  • Cyllenia Latreille, 1802
  • Cyrtomyia Bigot, 1892
  • Cytherea Fabricius, 1794
  • Cyx Evenhuis, 1993
  • Dasypalpus Macquart, 1840
  • Desmatomyia Williston, 1895
  • Desmatoneura Williston, 1895
  • Deusopora Hull, 1971
  • Diatropomma Bowden, 1962
  • Dicranoclista Bezzi, 1924
  • Diochanthrax Hall, 1975
  • Dipalta Osten Sacken, 1877
  • Diplocampta Schiner, 1868
  • Dischistus Loew, 1855
  • Docidomyia White, 1916
  • Doddosia Edwards, 1934
  • Dolichomyia Wiedemann, 1830
  • Doliogethys Hesse, 1938
  • Eclimus Loew, 1844
  • Edmundiella Becker, 1915
  • Efflatounia Bezzi, 1925
  • Enica Macquart, 1834
  • Epacmoides Hesse, 1956
  • Epacmus Osten Sacken, 1886
  • Eremyia Greathead, 1996
  • Eristalopsis Evenhuis, 1985
  • Eucessia Coquillett, 1886
  • Euchariomyia Bigot, 1888
  • Euprepina Hull, 1971
  • Eurycarenus Loew, 1860
  • Euryphthiria Evenhuis, 1986
  • Eusurbus Roberts, 1929
  • Exechohypopion Evenhuis, 1991
  • Exepacmus Coquillett, 1894
  • Exhyalanthrax
    Exhyalanthrax

    Exhyalanthrax is a small genus of Bombyliidae Fly. Bombyliids are commonly known as bee flies due to their resemblance to bees....
     Becker, 1916
  • Exoprosopa Macquart, 1840
  • Geminaria Coquillett, 1894
  • Geron Meigen, 1820
  • Glaesamictus Hennig, 1966
  • Gnumyia Bezzi, 1921
  • Gonarthrus Bezzi, 1921
  • Gyrocraspedum Becker, 1913
  • Hallidia Hull, 1970
  • Hemipenthes
    Hemipenthes

    Hemipenthes is a large genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae . There are many described species, distributed throughout the Holarctic and Palearctic Ecozones....
     Loew, 1869
  • Heteralonia Rondani, 1863
  • Heterostylum
    Heterostylum

    Heterostylum is a genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae . There are 14 described species, distributed throughout the Americas. These are robust and very hairy flies with a body length of 10-15 mm....
     Macquart, 1848
  • Heterotropus Loew, 1873
  • Hyperalonia Rondani, 1863
  • Hyperusia Bezzi, 1921
  • Inyo Hall & Evenhuis, 1987
  • Isocnemus Bezzi, 1924
  • Kapu Lambkin & Yeates, 2003
  • Karakumia Paramonov, 1927
  • Laminanthrax Greathead, 1967
  • Larrpana Lambkin & Yeates, 2003
  • Laurella Hull, 1971
  • Legnotomyia Bezzi, 1902
  • Lepidanthrax Osten Sacken, 1886
  • Lepidochlanus Hesse, 1938
  • Lepidophora Westwood, 1835
  • Ligyra Newman, 1841
  • Litorhina Bowden, 1975
  • Lomatia Meigen, 1822
  • Lordotus Loew, 1863
  • Macrocondyla Rondani, 1863
  • Mallophthiria Edwards, 1930
  • Mancia Coquillett, 1886
  • Mandella Evenhuis, 1983
  • Mariobezzia Becker, 1913
  • Marleyimyia Hesse, 1956
  • Marmosoma White, 1916
  • Megapalpus Macquart, 1834
  • Megaphthiria Hall, 1976
  • Melanderella Cockerell, 1909
  • Meomyia Evenhuis, 1983
  • Metacosmus Coquillett, 1891
  • Micomitra Bowden, 1964
  • Munjua Lambkin & Yeates, 2003
  • Muscatheres Evenhuis, 1986
  • Muwarna Lambkin & Yeates, 2003
  • Myonema Roberts, 1929
  • Neacreotrichus Cockerell, 1917
  • Nectaropota Philippi, 1865
  • Neobombylodes Evenhuis, 1978
  • Neodiplocampta Curran, 1934
  • Neodischistus Painter, 1933
  • Neosardus Roberts, 1929
  • Nomalonia Rondani, 1863
  • Nothoschistus Bowden, 1985
  • Notolomatia Greathead, 1998
  • Oestranthrax Bezzi, 1921
  • Oestrimyza Hull, 1973
  • Ogcodocera Macquart, 1840
  • Oligodranes Loew, 1844
  • Oncodosia Edwards, 1937
  • Oniromyia Bezzi, 1921
  • Othniomyia Hesse, 1938
  • Pachyanthrax François, 1964
  • Pachysystropus Cockerell, 1909
  • Palaeoamictus Meunier, 1916
  • Palaeogeron Meunier, 1915
  • Palintonus François, 1964
  • Palrika Lambkin & Yeates, 2003
  • Pantarbes Osten Sacken, 1877
  • Pantostomus Bezzi, 1921
  • Paracorsomyza Hennig, 1966
  • Paradiplocampta Hall, 1975
  • Parachistus Greathead, 1980
  • Paracosmus Osten Sacken, 1877
  • Parageron Paramonov, 1929
  • Paranthrax Bigot, 1876
  • Parasysteochus Hall, 1976
  • Paratoxophora Engel, 1936
  • Paravilla Painter, 1933
  • Parisus Walker, 1852
  • Perengueyimyia Bigot, 1886
  • Petrorossia Bezzi, 1908
  • Phthiria Meigen, 1803
  • Pilosia Hull, 1973
  • Pipunculopsis Bezzi, 1925
  • Platamomyia Brèthes, 1925
  • Plesiocera Macquart, 1840
  • Poecilanthrax Osten Sacken, 1886
  • Poecilognathus Jaennicke, 1867
  • Praecytherea Théobald, 1937
  • Prorachthes Loew, 1868
  • Prorostoma Hesse, 1956
  • Prothaplocnemis Bezzi, 1925
  • Pseudopenthes Roberts, 1928
  • Pteraulacodes Hesse, 1956
  • Pteraulax Bezzi, 1921
  • Pterobates Bezzi, 1921
  • Pusilla Paramonov, 1954
  • Pygocona Hull, 1973
  • Relictiphthiria Evenhuis, 1986
  • Rhynchanthrax Painter, 1933
  • Satyramoeba Sack, 1909
  • Semiramis Becker, 1913
  • Semistoechus Hall, 1976
  • Sericosoma Macquart, 1850
  • Sericothrix Hall, 1976
  • Sericusia Edwards, 1937
  • Sinaia Becker, 1916
  • Sisyromyia White, 1916
  • Sisyrophanus Karsch, 1886
  • Sosiomyia Bezzi, 1921
  • Sparnopolius Loew, 1855
  • Sphenoidoptera Williston, 1901
  • Spogostylum Macquart, 1840
  • Staurostichus Hull, 1973
  • Stomylomyia Bigot, 1888
  • Stonyx Osten Sacken, 1886
  • Synthesia Bezzi, 1921
  • Systoechus Loew, 1855
  • Systropus Wiedemann, 1820
  • Thevenetimyia Bigot, 1875
  • Thraxan Yeates & Lambkin, 1998
  • Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken, 1886
  • Tillyardomyia Tonnoir, 1927
  • Timiomyia Evenhuis, 1978
  • Tithonomyia Evenhuis, 1984
  • Tmemophlebia Evenhuis, 1986
  • Tomomyza Wiedemann, 1820
  • Tovlinius Zaitzev, 1979
  • Toxophora
    Toxophora

    Toxophora is a genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae . There are 14 described species, distributed throughout the world, although they are most abundant in Southwestern United States and western Mediterranean....
     Meigen, 1803
  • Triplasius Loew, 1855
  • Triploechus Edwards, 1937
  • Turkmeniella Paramonov, 1940
  • Usia Latreille, 1802
  • Veribubo Evenhuis, 1978
  • Verrallites Cockerell, 1913
  • Villa
    Villa (insect)

    Villa Villa is a genus of fly belonging to the family Bombyliidae or Bee-flies. They range in size from 5 - 17mm, and have typically rounded heads....
     Lioy, 1864
  • Villoestrus Paramonov, 1931
  • Walkeromyia Paramonov, 1934
  • Wurda Lambkin & Yeates, 2003
  • Xenoprosopa Hesse, 1956
  • Xenox Evenhuis, 1984
  • Xerachistus Greathead, 1995
  • Xeramoeba Hesse, 1956
  • Ylasoia Speiser
    Paul Gustav Eduard Speiser

    Paul Gustav Eduard Speiser was a Germany entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was first a physician then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially...
    , 1920
  • Zaclava Hull, 1973
  • Zinnomyia Hesse, 1955
  • Zyxmyia Bowden, 1960


External links

  • (Bee Flies) by David K. Yeates and Christine L. Lambkin in the Tree of Life web project. Consulted March 28, 2007.


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