Hemipenthes lepidota (Osten Sacken, 1886b)

Avalos-Hernandez, Omar, Kits, Joel, Trujano-Ortega, Marysol, Garcia-Vazquez, Uri Omar & Cano-Santana, Zenon, 2014, New records of bee flies (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico, ZooKeys 422, pp. 49-85 : 64

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.422.7598

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C2F172F9-0159-4CB8-8008-7649B690CEF0

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD7CDCF1-335D-17ED-CADB-603E4821B3F2

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scientific name

Hemipenthes lepidota (Osten Sacken, 1886b)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae

Hemipenthes lepidota (Osten Sacken, 1886b) View in CoL Figure 12b

Material examined.

EAM: Apr (1 M), Aug (1 F); CHU: Apr (1 F, 3 M), Aug (1 M); EEO: Jul (1 F, 4 M), Aug (1 F); REC: (1 M); REE: Apr (11 F, 2 M), Aug (1 F); RLC: Jun (1 F), Jul (3 F); RPA: Apr (1 F), Sep (4 F), Oct (2 F).

Known Nearctic records.

Canada (Alberta); Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Morelos, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas); USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada).

Comments.

This species is abundant in the rainy season in most of the Nearctic region but has not been collected in many states of Mexico or the USA where it probably is present.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Hemipenthes