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Xenox
Genus of flies
Xenox is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are five described species in Xenox, all of which parasitize bees in the genus Xylocopa as larvae.
01Species
- Xenox delila (Loew, 1869)
- Xenox habrosus (Marston, 1970)
- Xenox nigritus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Xenox tigrinus (De Geer, 1776) (tiger bee fly)
- Xenox xylocopae (Marston, 1970)
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