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Hemipenthes
Sign in to saveHemipenthes is a large genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae (bee-flies). There are many described species, distributed throughout the Holarctic realm. These are small to large robust flies with a body length of 5–14 mm. A number of species formerly in this genus were moved to a separate genus, Ins in 2020.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 13 inbound references to Hemipenthes, and connects out to Animalia, insect and Carl Linnaeus.
Vinony files it under Asilomorpha of Europe, Bombyliidae and Bombyliidae genera.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Black Banded Bee Fly
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyBombyliidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 639
- With media
- 73
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, IFIT-CP, INDRE-SSA
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Bombyliidae
- Image
- Hemipenthes.JPG
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- taxon name
- Hemipenthes
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Hemipenthes
- topic's main category
- Category:Hemipenthes
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Extant species
- Extinct species
- References
Hemipenthes is a large genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae (bee-flies). There are many described species, distributed throughout the Holarctic realm. These are small to large robust flies with a body length of 5–14 mm. A number of species formerly in this genus were moved to a separate genus, Ins in 2020.
Larvae are hyperparasites of parasitic Hymenoptera.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hemipenthes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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