Lepidophora

Lepidophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Bombyliidae
Subfamily:Ecliminae
Genus:Lepidophora
Westwood, 1835

Lepidophora is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are about nine described species in Lepidophora.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Lepidophora:

  • Lepidophora aegeriiformis Westw. g
  • Lepidophora culiciformis Walker, 1850 g
  • Lepidophora cuneata Painter, 1939 c g
  • Lepidophora lepidocera (Wiedemann, 1828) i c g b (scaly bee fly)
  • Lepidophora lutea Painter, 1962 i c g b
  • Lepidophora secutor Walker, 1857 c g
  • Lepidophora sumptuosum (White, 1916) c g
  • Lepidophora trypoxylona Hall, 1981 c g
  • Lepidophora vetusta Walker, 1857 i c g b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Lepidophora Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Lepidophora". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  3. 1 2 "Lepidophora". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  4. 1 2 "Lepidophora Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  5. ↑ "Lepidophora Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-28.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825.
  • McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.
  • Yeates, David K.; Greathead, David (1997). "The evolutionary pattern of host use in the Bombyliidae (Diptera): a diverse family of parasitoid flies". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 60: 149–185.

  • "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  • Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J. (2015). "World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site". Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  • Media related to Lepidophora at Wikimedia Commons
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