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

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae

Toxophora maxima Coquillett, 1886 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.