Key to Chrysanthrax 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

1.	Abdomen black with bands of white tomentum (Figure 21b)	dispar
	8-9 mm. In Ontario, along lakes Erie and Huron (widespread from the Great Lakes south to Mexico). Sandy areas, host unknown. Adults fly Aug. – Sept.
-	Abdomen black and orange without bands of white tomentum (Figure 21c,d)	2

2.	Basal half of wing dark brown, sharply divided from clear apical part (Figure 64m)	cypris*
	8-15 mm. Not recorded from Ontario (central and eastern U.S. south to Neotropical Mexico). Recorded as a parasitoid on a tiphiid wasp.
-	Wing smoky with dark crossveins (Figure 64l)	edititius*
	9-11 mm. Not recorded from Ontario (widespread in midwestern, central, and western U.S., south to Honduras.) Recorded as a parasitoid on anthophorid bees.