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Bombylidae (bee fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Bombylidae
Taxonomy
Bombylarii was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. Its type is Bombylius.
It was corrected as Bombylidae by Osten Sacken (1877); it was corrected as Bombyliidae by Kovalev (1986), Carpenter (1992), Nel and De Ploeg (2004), Wiegmann et al. (2011), Grimaldi (2016), Shin et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Diptera by Latreille (1802), Osten Sacken (1877); to Brachycera by Carpenter (1992); to Bombylioidea by Kovalev (1986), Nel and De Ploeg (2004); to Asiloidea by Wiegmann et al. (2011), Grimaldi (2016); and to Heterodactyla by Shin et al. (2018).
It was corrected as Bombylidae by Osten Sacken (1877); it was corrected as Bombyliidae by Kovalev (1986), Carpenter (1992), Nel and De Ploeg (2004), Wiegmann et al. (2011), Grimaldi (2016), Shin et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Diptera by Latreille (1802), Osten Sacken (1877); to Brachycera by Carpenter (1992); to Bombylioidea by Kovalev (1986), Nel and De Ploeg (2004); to Asiloidea by Wiegmann et al. (2011), Grimaldi (2016); and to Heterodactyla by Shin et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1802 | Bombylarii Latreille p. 427 |
| 1877 | Bombylidae Osten Sacken p. 225 |
| 1986 | Bombyliidae Kovalev p. 151 |
| 1992 | Bombyliidae Carpenter |
| 2004 | Bombyliidae Nel and De Ploeg |
| 2011 | Bombyliidae Wiegmann et al. |
| 2016 | Bombyliidae Grimaldi p. 63 |
| 2018 | Bombyliidae Shin et al. |
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Fm. Bombylidae Latreille 1802 [bee fly]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Collections
No collection or age range data are available