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The Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Ontario, with a Key to the Species of Eastern Canada
CJAI 06 March 06, 2008
doi: 10.3752/cjai.2008.06
Joel H. Kits* , Stephen A. Marshall* , and Neal L. Evenhuis**
* Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone
Rd. E., Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada jkits@uoguelph.ca, samarsha@uoguelph.ca
** Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street,
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817, USA neale@bishopmuseum.org
9. Key to the Poecilanthrax species of Ontario and eastern Canada
Larvae are endoparasitoids of noctuid moths. Key based on Painter and Hall (1960)
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Wing entirely smoky brown, without clear spots (Figure 64f) |
tegminipennis |
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12-17 mm. Southern Ontario north to Sudbury (southern Canada into mountainous western and northern and northeastern U.S.). Adults fly mid July – early Sept. |
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Wing with clear spots (Figure 64g-i) |
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Entire face with black hair (Figure 43a); abdominal tergites with median stripe of black tomentum (Figure 43c); wing without closed cell below cell dm (Figure 64i) |
bicellata |
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14-16 mm. Rare in Ontario, only known from Windsor (known in U.S. from Great Lakes region to midwest and eastern states). Adults fly mid July – Aug. |
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Lower half of face with yellow hair (Figure 43b); abdomen without median dorsal stripe of black tomentum (Figure 43d); closed cell below cell dm formed by extra crossvein (Figure 64g,h) |
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Humeral callus black (Figure 44a); wings pale brown with spots clear (Figure 64g); front coxa with half or more black (Figure 44c) |
alycon |
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10-17 mm. Rarely collected, southern Ontario and Rainy River District (Great Lakes area west to south central Canada, central U.S., and the Rockies; also North Carolina). Adults fly July – Sept. |
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Humeral callus partially or entirely reddish (Figure 44b); wings dark brown with spots smoky grey (Figure 64h); front coxa with ⅓ or less black (Figure 44d) |
nigripennis* |
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13 mm. Not recorded from Ontario (rarely collected in the northeastern United States). |
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