Heterotropus

Heterotropus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Bombyliidae
Subfamily: Heterotropinae
Becker, 1912
Genus: Heterotropus
Loew, 1873[1]
Synonyms

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Kröber, O. (1928). "Neue und wenig bekannte Dipteren aus den Familien Omphralidae, Conopidae und Therevidae". 7. Konowia: 113–134.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J. (2015). "World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)" (PDF). Retrieved 2 January 2019.