Toxophora maxima Coquillett, 1886

Avalos-Hernandez, Omar, Kits, Joel, Trujano-Ortega, Marysol, Garcia-Vazquez, Uri Omar & Cano-Santana, Zenon, 2014, New records of bee flies (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico, ZooKeys 422, pp. 49-85 : 53

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.422.7598

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C2F172F9-0159-4CB8-8008-7649B690CEF0

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F8A31BD4-16CA-E8B8-5953-43635B023960

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scientific name

Toxophora maxima Coquillett, 1886
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae

Toxophora maxima Coquillett, 1886 View in CoL Figure 2a, b

Material examined.

CHU: Jul (1 M); EEO: Jul (2 F, 2 M), Oct (1 F, 3 M).

Known Nearctic records.

Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Coahuila); USA (Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas).

Comments.

In Mexico Toxophora maxima was only known from Baja California Peninsula and now Coahuila. This apparent gap in its distribution is probably due to undersampling. Sampling of the intermediate zones is necessary to know if these populations form a continuous unit as they do in the southern states of USA.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Toxophora