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Marleyimyia
''Marleyimyia'' is a genus of bee fly The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae are mostly parasitoids of other insects. Overview The Bombyliidae are a large family of fl .... It was named by Albert John Hesse in 1956; the name is in honor of Harold Walter Bell-Marley. it consists of three species: * '' M. goliath'' — Peninsular Malaysia * '' M. natalensis'' — Southern Africa * '' M. xylocopae'' — Southern Africa References Bombyliidae genera {{Bombyliidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marleyimyia Natalensis
''Marleyimyia'' is a genus of bee fly The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae are mostly parasitoids of other insects. Overview The Bombyliidae are a large family of fl .... It was named by Albert John Hesse in 1956; the name is in honor of Harold Walter Bell-Marley. it consists of three species: * '' M. goliath'' — Peninsular Malaysia * '' M. natalensis'' — Southern Africa * '' M. xylocopae'' — Southern Africa References Bombyliidae genera {{Bombyliidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marleyimyia Goliath
''Marleyimyia'' is a genus of bee fly The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae are mostly parasitoids of other insects. Overview The Bombyliidae are a large family of fl .... It was named by Albert John Hesse in 1956; the name is in honor of Harold Walter Bell-Marley. it consists of three species: * '' M. goliath'' — Peninsular Malaysia * '' M. natalensis'' — Southern Africa * '' M. xylocopae'' — Southern Africa References Bombyliidae genera {{Bombyliidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marleyimyia Xylocopae
''Marleyimyia xylocopae'' is a species of bee fly from South Africa that has a similarity to the patterning of a carpenter bee '' Xylocopa flavicollis'' found in the region. The species is considered to be distinctive and only one of three within the genus ''Marleyimyia''. The other members of the genus are ''Marleyimyia goliath'' described from Peninsular Malaysia and ''M. natalensis'' from southern Africa. Members in the genus have been presumed to be crepuscular or nocturnal but this species was found to be diurnal. Controversy about photography-based taxonomy The species was unusual in being described on the basis of two photographs, without the collection, designation of a holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ... specimen and deposition in a suitable repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombyliidae
The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae are mostly parasitoids of other insects. Overview The Bombyliidae are a large family of flies comprising hundreds of genera, but the life cycles of most species are known poorly, or not at all. They range in size from very small (2 mm in length) to very large for flies (wingspan of some 40 mm).Hull, Frank Montgomery, Bee flies of the world: the genera of the family Bombyliidae Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press 1973 . Downloadable from: https://archive.org/details/beefliesofworl2861973hull When at rest, many species hold their wings at a characteristic "swept back" angle. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators, often with spectacularly long proboscises adapted to plants such as ''Lapeirousia'' species with very long, narrow floral tubes. Unlike butterflies, bee flies hold t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert John Hesse
Albert John Hesse (1895–1987) was a South African entomologist. He was a curator at the Iziko South African Museum for fifty one years. Hesse worked primarily on Bombyliidae and Mydidae. He wrote the monumental'' A revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa''. ''Annals of the South African Museum'' 34:1-1053 (1938) Life and career Hesse was born on 4 November 1895 in Potchefstroom, South African Republic where he attended school from 1904 to 1909. He attended high school in Wellington (1909-1913), went to the South African College Schools in Cape Town (1914) and matriculated from Boys' High School in Stellenbosch in 1915. He started his university education at the South African College in Cape Town in 1916 but moved to the Transvaal University College in Pretoria in 1917 where he majored in Chemistry, Zoology and Geology. He obtained a BSc.Hons degree in 1918 and completed his PhD in Zoology and Parasitology at the University of Edinburgh in 1922. He conducte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
