Portschinskia is a genus of flies. They are also known as bumblebee bot flies due to their striking resemblance to bumblebees both in habit and colour patterns. Like all bot flies they are obligate parasites whose larvae develop in mammals.
Portschinskia is a genus of flies. They are also known as bumblebee bot flies due to their striking resemblance to bumblebees both in habit and colour patterns. Like all bot flies they are obligate parasites whose larvae develop in mammals.
== Taxonomy == The first phylogenetic study of Portschinskia of all 11 species, including four new species, was published in 2020. Portschinskia bombiformis Portschinsky, 1901 Portschinskia burmensis Xin-Yu Li, Thomas Pape, Dong Zhang, 2020 Portschinskia gigas Portschinsky, 1901 Portschinskia himalayana Grunin, 1962 Portschinskia loewii Schnabl, 1877 Portschinskia magnifica Pleske, 1926 Portschinskia neugebaueri Portschinsky, 1881 Portschinskia przewalskyi Portschinsky, 1887 Portschinskia sichuanensis Xin-Yu Li, Thomas Pape, Dong Zhang, 2020 Portschinskia xizangensis Xin-Yu Li, Thomas Pape, Dong Zhang, 2020 Portschinskia yunnanensis Xin-Yu Li, Thomas Pape, Dong Zhang, 2020
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).