Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae

Genus Heterostylum Macquart

Remarks.

The genus is only present in Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Although not as diverse as other genera (only 12 species), specimens from some species are abun dant in the field. Heterostylum robustum was previously known from Coahuila and was collected during this study. This species is distributed from Canada to central Mexico. There are two revisions for this genus that contains identification keys, one by Hall and Evenhuis (1980) and the more recent by Cunha et al. (2007).