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Exoprosopa jacchus is a species of 'bee flies' belonging to the family Bombyliidae subfamily Anthracinae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Bombyliidae |
| Genus: | Exoprosopa |
| Species: | E. jacchus
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| Binomial name | |
| Exoprosopa jacchus (Fabricius, 1805)
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Commonly named 'silvery bee-fly', this species is present in most of Europe.
The average body length of the adults reaches 12 millimetres (0.47 in). The head and the thorax are dark-brown. The thorax is quite hairy and marked by silvery-white scales. The abdomen is blackish with a few silver hair stripes and it is hairy on the sides. The wings are mottled light and dark-brown, with hyaline patches on the front border cell (R1). The third segment of the antennae is longer than the fourth.
References
edit- Mark van Veen, Zeist - Exoprosopa Keys
External links
edit- Biolib
- Fauna Europaea Archived 2011-11-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Macroinstantes
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