Poecilanthrax californicus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Bombyliidae |
Tribe: | Villini |
Genus: | Poecilanthrax |
Species: | P. californicus |
Binomial name | |
Poecilanthrax californicus (Cole, 1917) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Poecilanthrax californicus is a species of bee flies (insects in the family Bombyliidae). [1] [2] [3] [4]
Poecilanthrax willistoni, Williston's bee fly or sand dune bee fly, is a member of the Bombyliidae insect family. This family includes the bee flies, true flies that have developed Batesian mimicry characteristics to avoid predators. That is, they look like bees because that helps them avoid bee-wary predators, but they lack stingers.
Poecilanthrax is a large, primarily Nearctic genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae (bee-flies).
P. californicus may refer to:
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