Heterotropus is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Heterotropinae, which formerly contained at least four genera. There are more than 45 species in the genus Heterotropus.[5]
| Heterotropus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Bombyliidae |
| Subfamily: | Heterotropinae Becker, 1912 |
| Genus: | Heterotropus Loew, 1873[1] |
| Synonyms | |
References
edit- ^ Loew, H. (1873). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insecten. Von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Zehnter Theil oder vierter Supplementband. Beschreibung europäischer Dipteren. Dritter Band. Halle: H.W. Schmidt. pp. viii + 320.
- ^ Kröber, O. (1928). "Neue und wenig bekannte Dipteren aus den Familien Omphralidae, Conopidae und Therevidae". 7. Konowia: 113–134.
- ^ Evenhuis, Neal L. (2022). "Microrhina Kröber, 1928, a new synonym of Heterotropus Loew, 1873 (Diptera: Bombyliidae)". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 158 (3): 227–229. doi:10.31184/M00138908.1583.4123. S2CID 250967041.
- ^ Becker, T. (1908). "Zur Kenntnis der Dipteren von Central-Asien. I. Cyclorrhapha Schizophora Holometopa und Orthorrhapha Brachycera". Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 12[1907]: 253–317.
- ^ Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J. (2015). "World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)" (PDF). Retrieved 2 January 2019.
Further reading
edit- Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0660121253.
- Yeates, David K.; Greathead, David (1997). "The evolutionary pattern of host use in the Bombyliidae (Diptera): a diverse family of parasitoid flies". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 60 (2): 149–185. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1997.tb01490.x. ISSN 0024-4066.
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