Bombylius (Bombylius) canescens Mikan 1796
- Dataset
- The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Bombyliidae
- genus
- Bombylius
- species
- Bombylius canescens
distribution
Distribution: Palaearctic: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, BosniaHercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Gruzia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Yugoslavia. Bombylius canescens appears to be common during spring season when many specimens were collected in March. This species has been reared from nests of Odynerus reniformis (Gmelin) (Eumenidae), also several species of Halictidae (du Merle, 1975).
materials_examined
Material: 24 specimens: Al Jubayhah 23. II. 1995 (1 Ψ, 1 ɗ); 19. III. 1994 (1 Ψ, 1 ɗ); 22. III. 1995 (1 ɗ); Al Mashari’a 1. III. 1983 (1 ɗ); Al Mukhaybah al Fawqa 9. III. 2002 (8 Ψ, 4 ɗ); Ayn Aqraba 25. III. 2002 (2 Ψ, 1 ɗ); As Salt 5. III. 1974 (1 Ψ); Dayr Alla 5. IV. 1998 (1 Ψ); Jarash 15. IV. 2002 (1 Ψ).