the genus conophorus meigen, 1803 (diptera: bombyliidae: conophorini) was studied in the north and northwestern parts of iran. three species of the genus conophorus were identified; two of them are recorded for the first time from iran, namely: c. pseudaduncus paramonov, 1929 and c. rjabovi paramonov, 1929, in addition to c. glaucescens (loew, 1863), which was previously recorded in iran. morph...

the genus exoprosopa macqurt, 1840 (diptera: bombyliidae: anthracinae) was studied in the north central iran. four species of the genus exoprosopa were identified of which e. minos (meigen,1804) and e. grandis (pallas, 1818) were previously recorded from northern parts of iran ( or north of iran ) and two species namely e. efflatounbeyi paramonov, 1928and e. altaica paramonov, 1925 are newly re...

Bush Blitz is a three-year multimillion dollar program to document the plants and animals in hundreds of properties across Australia's National Reserve System. The core focus is on nature discovery - identifying and describing new species of plants and animals. The Bush Blitz program has enabled the collection and description of beeflies (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from surveys in Western Australia ...

Bombyliidae (5000 sp.), or bee flies, are a lower brachyceran family of flower-visiting flies that, as larvae, act as parasitoids of other insects. The evolutionary relationships are known from a morphological analysis that yielded minimal support for higher-level groupings. We use the protein-coding gene CAD and 28S rDNA to determine phylogeny and to test the monophyly of existing subfamilies,...