Hunchback bee fly

Infraorder
The family Bombyliidae was formerly placed in Muscomorpha, one of two infraorders of Brachycera, a suborder of Diptera. However, Brachycera did not contain all of the descendants of the last common ancestor (paraphyletic). It was split into five extant (still existing) and one extinct infraorder. Orthorrhapha is now considered obsolete and has not been used in the last decade, but it persists in printed literature and on some online sources. A recent revision of the order Diptera (Pope, et al., 2011) revived the name Orthorrhapha, but this has not been widely accepted.

Subfamily
The genus Lepidophora was formerly placed in the subfamily Ecliminae. A recent analysis of the phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of the family Bombyliidae (Xuankun and Yeates, 2019) proposed a new tribal classification for almost all genera. Five previously recognized tribes have been revised, and four new tribes have been erected within the subfamily Bombyliinae. The former subfamily Ecliminae became a tribe in the subfamily Bombyliinae. The proposed moved has received a mixed reception. ITIS, NCBI, and BugGuide place Lepidophora in the subfamily Ecliminae. Catalog of Life and iNaturalist place it in the subfamily Bombyliinae.