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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)

1. Wing entirely smoky brown, without clear spots (Figure 64f) tegminipennis
  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.  
- Wing with clear spots (Figure 64g-i) 2

2. 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
  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.  
- 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) 3

3. Humeral callus black (Figure 44a); wings pale brown with spots clear (Figure 64g); front coxa with half or more black (Figure 44c) alycon
  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.  
- 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*
  13 mm. Not recorded from Ontario (rarely collected in the northeastern United States).  

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