The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Some are colloquially known as bomber flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae are mostly parasitoids of other insects.
Anthracinae is a subfamily of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are more than 80 genera and 2,000 described species in Anthracinae.
Thyridanthrax luminis is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It is known from California.
Thyridanthrax is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are about 50 described species in the genus Thyridanthrax, found across Eurasia, Africa, North America, and South America.
Villini is a tribe of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae.
Systoechus is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are more than 120 described species in Systoechus.
Thyridanthrax selene is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It is known from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Thyridanthrax andrewsi is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It is found in the United States in California and Idaho.
Lordotus planus is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae.
Toxophora leucopyga is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It is found in the southwestern United States from Louisiana to North Carolina
Lordotus divisus is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae.
Lordotus gibbus is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae.
Toxophora maxima is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It is found from Mexico through most of the western United States north to British Columbia, Canada.
Lordotus striatus is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae.
Conophorus fallax is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It is found in North America, from the Yukon to Saskatchewan in Canada south to New Mexico and California in the United States.
Conophorus atratulus is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae.
Thyridanthrax nugator is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It is known from California and Oregon.
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.
Thyridanthrax atratus is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae.
Anthrax analis, the black bee fly, is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It can be found throughout North America, from the Yukon east to Quebec in Canada, the entire mainland United States, most of Mexico, and as far south as Costa Rica and Cuba. As an adult it is a pollinator, and as a larva it is a parasitoid of tiger beetles in the genus Cicindela, and likely also of solitary bees. It is variable in appearance, with the posterior half of the wings usually transparent, but in the eastern United States the wings may be entirely dark.. The body itself is covered in black hair, but the tip of the abdomen usually has silvery scales.
