Poecilognathus

Poecilognathus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Bombyliidae
Subfamily:	Phthiriinae
Genus:	Poecilognathus Jaennicke, 1867

Poecilognathus is a genus of bee flies (insects in the family Bombyliidae). There are at least 20 described species in Poecilognathus.

Species

These 21 species belong to the genus Poecilognathus:

• Poecilognathus alterans (Williston, 1901) ^{c g}
• Poecilognathus badia (Coquillett, 1904) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus bicolor (Coquillett, 1904) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus fulvida (Coquillett, 1904) ^{c g}
• Poecilognathus inornata (Coquillett, 1904) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus loewi (Painter, 1965) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus marginata (Coquillett, 1904) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus philippianus (Rondani, 1863) ^{c g}
• Poecilognathus pulchella (Williston, 1901) ⁱ
• Poecilognathus punctipennis (Walker, 1849) ^{i c g b}
• Poecilognathus radia (Coquillett, 1904) ^{c g}
• Poecilognathus relativitae (Evenhuis, 1985) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus scolopax (Osten Sacken, 1877) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus stictopennis (Hall, 1976) ^{c g}
• Poecilognathus sulphurea (Loew, 1863) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus testacea (Macquart, 1840) ^{c g}
• Poecilognathus thlipsomyzoides Jaennicke, 1867 ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus unicolor (Bezzi, 1925) ^{c g}
• Poecilognathus unimaculata (Coquillett, 1904) ^{i c g}
• Poecilognathus unimaculatus ^b
• Poecilognathus xanthogaster (Hall, 1976) ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.
• Yeates, David K.; Greathead, David (1997). "The evolutionary pattern of host use in the Bombyliidae (Diptera): a diverse family of parasitoid flies". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 60 (2): 149–185. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1997.tb01490.x.

External links

• "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-03-29.
• Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J. (2015). "World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site". Retrieved 2018-03-29.
• Media related to Poecilognathus at Wikimedia Commons