Xenox xylocopae (Marston, 1970)

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 : 73-75

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae

Xenox xylocopae (Marston, 1970) Figure 19

Material examined.

ECA: Sep (1 M).

Known Nearctic records.

Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora), USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas).

Known host.

Xylocopa micheneri micheneri (Hurd) ( Apidae ) as reported by Minckley (1989).

Comments.

Xenox xylocopae appears to be restricted to the northeast of Mexico and south of the USA. Three of the other species also have restricted and separate distributions: Xenox delila Loew, 1869 is present in the northwest of Mexico and California; Xenox nigritus (Schaeffer, 1768) occurs from the northeast of Mexico (Veracruz and Tamaulipas without overlap with Xenox xylocopae ) to South America; and Xenox tigrinus (De Geer, 1776) is present in the eastern USA and southern Ontario. Only Xenox habrosus (Marston, 1970) has a distribution overlapping with the other four species, being present in all of Mexico and the southwest of the USA.