Bombyliidae


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Related to Bombyliidae: Tephritidae, Sciomyzidae
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Noun1.Bombyliidae - bee flies
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
Diptera, order Diptera - a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies
bee fly - hairy nectar-eating fly that resembles a bee; larvae are parasitic on larvae of bees and related insects
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Bombyliidae (Insecta: Diptera) de Quilamula en el area de reserva Sierra de Huautla, Morelos, Mexico.
Morphospecie 1 0 0 0 0 Tachinidae Tachinidae morphospecie 1 0 0 0 0 Bombyliidae Bombyliidae morphospecie 1 2 0 2 0.5 Neuroptera Chrysopidae Chrysoperla sp.
In addition to Sphecid wasp a fly of genus Anthrox, specie of the family Bombyliidae was also recorded as pupal parasites of the Z.
On a single observation day, at peak flowering in 2014, Apis mellifera (Apidae), Hemaris (Sphingidae), and a Bombyliidae were also observed foraging on flowers.
New species without dead bodies: a case for photo-based descriptions, illustrated by a striking new species of Marleyimyia Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from South Africa.
We found seven visitor species, three species belong to Hymenoptera (two Apidae: Ancyloscelis apiformis (Fabricius, 1793), and Diadasia olivacea (Cresson, 1878), one to Halictidae: Augochloropsis metallica (Fabricius, 1793)); two species to Diptera (Anthrax irroratus (Say, 1823) and Musca domestica L.) (families Muscidae and Bombyliidae respectively); one species to Orthoptera (Phaedrotettix sp.
Other parasitic insects are Tachinid flies (family Tachinidae), and bee flies (family Bombyliidae).
Simuliidae, Bombyliidae, Empididae, Syrphidae, Tachinidae, Muscidae, Phycodromidae, Borboridae, Trypetidae, Ephydridae, Drosophilidae, Geomyzidae, Agromyzidae, Conopidae.
La identificacion preliminar de los parasitoides se realizo mediante el estudio de los caracteres morfologicos utilizando las claves de Wharton & Marsh (1978) y Wharton (2007) para Braconidos; Muesebeck (1980) y Montilla & Garcia (2008) para diapriidos y las provistas por Avalos-Hernandez (2007) y Yao & Yang (2008) para Bombyliidae.
Families included here are the Anthomyiidae, Bombyliidae, Calliphoridae, Muscidae, Syrphidae, and Tachinidae (Kearns 2001); all but the Bombyliidae were detected at Ailanthus flowers in this study.