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Mottled Bee-fly
Thyridanthrax fenestratus
Thyridanthrax fenestratus is a Palearctic species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae.
It is found throughout Europe, through Greece and Turkey, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and across the Palearctic to China in the East The larvae are parasitoids of Pemphredon fabricii pupae.
From the article Thyridanthrax fenestratus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Black. Head slightly prominent, tawny with whitish hairs. Fron with tawny hairs at the front. Antennae: first segment reddish, second and third dark brown. Back of the eyes white. Thorax with tawny hairs at the front and sides; scutellum dark reddish with a broadly black base. Wing: front half brown, with pale yellowish spots at the base and on the cross veins; back half glassy, iridescent. Abdomen: base with white hairs on the sides; tergites III-IV with a broken white band along the middle, tip white. Length 8-12 mm.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 500934.