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Lordotus
Lordotus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Bombyliidae
Subfamily:	Lordotinae
Genus:	Lordotus Loew, 1863
Synonyms
Adelidea Marquart, 1840

Lordotus

Lordotus is a North American genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are about 30 described species in Lordotus.

Species

These 29 species belong to the genus Lordotus:

• Lordotus abdominalis Johnson and Johnson, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus albidus Hall, 1954 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus apicula Coquillett, 1887 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus arizonensis Johnson and Johnson, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus arnaudi Johnson and Johnson, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus bipartitus Painter, 1940 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus bucerus Coquillett, 1894 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus cingulatus Johnson and Johnson, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus diplasus Hall, 1954 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus diversus Coquillett, 1891 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus divisus Cresson, 1919 ^{i c g b}
• Lordotus ermae Hall, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus gibbus Loew, 1863 ^{i c g b}
• Lordotus hurdi Hall, 1957 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus junceus Coquillett, 1891 ^{i c g b}
• Lordotus lineatus Johnson & Johnson, 1959 ^{c g}
• Lordotus luteolus Hall, 1954 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus lutescens Johnson and Johnson, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus miscellus Coquillett, 1887 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus nevadensis Hall and Evenhuis, 1982 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus perplexus Johnson and Johnson, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus planus Osten Sacken, 1877 ^{i c g b}
• Lordotus puella Williston, 1893 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus pulchrissimus Williston, 1893 ^{i c g b}
• Lordotus rufotibialis Johnson and Johnson, 1959 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus schlingeri Hall and Evenhuis, 1982 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus sororculus Williston, 1893 ^{i c g}
• Lordotus striatus Painter, 1940 ^{i c g b}
• Lordotus zona Coquillett, 1887 ^{i c g b}

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 2018-03-20.
• Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J. (2015). "World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site". Retrieved 2018-03-20.