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Heterotropus
Sign in to saveHeterotropus 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.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- With media
- 133
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Collections
- IFIT-CP, SAM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Mexico, South Africa, Namibia
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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.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heterotropus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.