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Grosser Wollschweber Bombylius major🪲

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SpeciesDipteraBombyliidae
Arthropods

🪲Bombylius major

Bombylius major Linnaeus, 1758

La mosca abejorro (Bombylius major) es una mosca de la familia Bombyliidae, llamadas moscas abejas. Es una mimética batesiana de las abejas. La hembra de bombylius major arroja sus huevos hacia la entrada de los nidos subterráneos de abejas solitarias y avispas. Luego de la eclosión, las larvas ingresan al nido y se alimentan de las larvas que encuentran allí.​ Bombylius major se encuentra de abril a junio en todas las regiones templadas de Europa, Norteamérica y Asia.

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Large bee-fly
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderDiptera
  5. ›familyBombyliidae
  6. ›genusBombylius
  7. ›speciesBombylius major
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderFlies · Diptera
  3. subfamilyBombyliinae
  4. genusBombylius
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderFlies · Diptera
  7. suborderBrachycera
  8. familyBombyliidae
  9. subfamilyBombyliinae
  10. genusBombylius
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villakärpänen (fi), Bombylius major (fr), ビロウドツリアブ (ja), 빌로오도재니등에 (ko), gewone wolzwever (nl), Großer Wollschweber (de) … and 16 more languages
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Grosser Wollschweber Bombylius major2014.03.29. 16 Mannheim Neckarau Waldpark Grosser Wollschweber
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