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Bee Fly – SE Ariz. Sighting
Hi Bug Guy,
It’s been a while since I’ve sent you anything to ID, but I sure do visit your sight often to see if I can find ID’s for Bugs I catch, and your site is a huge resource and help! I was so excited when I searched whatsthatbug for this insect, to find a photo and description of a (somewhat rare) Bee Fly, that looks just like the one I "caught" (with my camera) at a pond on the ground where I work in Dragoon, Ariz, Cochise County, SE AZ. Thought you would like to know of another sighting. Thanks so much for being there!
Carol L. Breton
Benson, Arizona

Hi Carol,
Though you did not mention the identity of the rare Bee Fly in your letter, we are guessing that you refer to our posting of Ogcodocera leucoprocta from Georgia and the note that another member of the genus occurs in Arizona. Though the coloration seems similar, we had our doubts, and turned our search to BugGuide’s extensive Bee Fly postings for the family Bombyliidae, searching patiently through subfamilies, tribes and genera to no avail. Then we decided to check our volume of Charles Hogue’s Insects of the Los Angeles Basin and found a photo of Hemipenthes sinuosa jaennickiana, a Black Winged Bee Fly that looked similar to your photo. Then we returned to BugGuide to search that genus, and found within the genus an unnamed species found in Arizona that looks like a match to your photo

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