Key to Thevenetimyia species

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

Larval hosts are not recorded for either of the Ontario species but congeners have been recorded as possible parasitoids of wood-boring Coleoptera.

1.	Larger species (12-15 mm); scutellum with only white pile (Figure 36b); upper half of occiput (posterior side of head behind eyes) with white pile in both sexes, a few black hairs sometimes present near top; abdominal segment 5 with black pile ventrally (Figure 37c)	harrisi
	Boreal areas south to Ottawa (Mer Bleue bog), rarely collected (eastern Canada and northeastern U.S.). Adults recorded in June and July.
-	Smaller species (7-9 mm); scutellum with some long black hairs (Figure 36a); male with mostly black pile on upper half of occiput, and mixed black and white pile ventally on abdominal segment 5 (Figure 37b); female with white pile on upper occiput with a few black hairs near top and white pile on abdominal segment 5 (Figure 37a)	funesta
	Rarely collected in central Ontario (southeastern Canada to adjacent U.S.). Adults recorded from May to early July.