Anthrax (fly)
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Anthrax is a genus of bombyliid flies, commonly known as "bee-flies" due to their resemblance to bees. Most are dull black flies, and are usually small to medium in size, 4–20 millimetres (0.2–0.8 in), and many species have striking wing patterns.[1]
Anthrax is a very large genus. While worldwide in distribution, most species are from the Palaearctic and Afrotropic regions. The genus includes species parasitic on tiger beetles – an unusual trait among the bee-flies. A. anthrax larvae parasitize bees. Many North American species parasitize solitary wasps.[2]
The type species is Musca morio Linnaeus, 1758, later found to be a misidentification of Musca anthrax Schrank, 1781.[3]
Species
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- Anthrax aethiops (Fabricius 1781)
- Anthrax alruqibi El-Hawagry, 2013[4]
- Anthrax analis Say, 1823
- Anthrax anthrax (Schrank 1781)
- Anthrax argentatus (Cole, 1919)
- Anthrax artemesia Marston, 1963
- Anthrax atriplex Marston, 1970
- Anthrax aureosquamosus Marston, 1963
- Anthrax binotatus Wiedemann in Meigen 1820
- Anthrax bowdeni Báez 1983
- Anthrax cascadensis Marston, 1963
- Anthrax cathetodaithmos Marston, 1970
- Anthrax chaparralus Marston, 1963
- Anthrax chionostigma Tsacas 1962
- Anthrax cintalapa Cole, 1957
- Anthrax columbiensis Marston, 1963
- Anthrax cybele (Coquillett, 1894)
- Anthrax dentata Becker 1907
- Anthrax distigma Wiedemann
- Anthrax francoisi Evenhuis & Greathead 1999
- Anthrax gideon Fabricius, 1805
- Anthrax giselae François 1966
- Anthrax greatheadi El-Hawagry 1998
- Anthrax innublipennis Marston, 1970
- Anthrax johanni Zaitzev 1997
- Anthrax koebelei Marston, 1970
- Anthrax larrea Marston, 1963
- Anthrax laticellus Marston, 1970
- Anthrax melanopogon (Becker, 1892)
- Anthrax moursyi El-Hawagry 1998
- Anthrax nidicola Cole, 1952
- Anthrax nigriventris Marston, 1970
- Anthrax nitidus Marston, 1970
- Anthrax oedipus Fabricius, 1805
- Anthrax painteri Marston, 1970
- Anthrax pauper (Loew, 1869)
- Anthrax pelopeius François 1966
- Anthrax picea Marston, 1963
- Anthrax pilosulus Strobl 1902
- Anthrax plesius (Curran, 1927)
- Anthrax pluricellus Williston, 1901
- Anthrax pluto Wiedemann, 1828
- Anthrax punctulatus Macquart 1835
- Anthrax seriepinctatus (Osten Sacken, 1886)
- Anthrax slossonae (Johnson, 1913)
- Anthrax snowi Marston, 1970
- Anthrax stellans (Loew, 1869)
- Anthrax sticticus Klug 1832
- Anthrax striatipennis Marston, 1970
- Anthrax trifasciatus Meigen 1804
- Anthrax vallicola Marston, 1963
- Anthrax varius Fabricius 1794
- Anthrax virgo Egger 1859
- Anthrax zohrayensis El-Hawagry 2002
- Anthrax zonabriphagus (Portchinsky 1895
References
- ^ F. M. Hull (1973). Bee flies of the world. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 1–687. ISBN 0-87474-131-9.
- ^ a b Eaton, Eric R.; Kaufman, Kenn (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-618-15310-7.
- ^ Magdi S. El-Hawagry; Aly A. El-Moursy; Francis Gilbert; Samy Zalat (2000). "The tribe Anthracini Latreille (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Egypt" (PDF). Egyptian Journal of Biology. 2: 97–117.
- ^ El-Hawagry; Khalil; Sharaf; Fadl; Aldawood (2013). "A preliminary study on the insect fauna of Al-Baha Province, Saudi Arabia, with descriptions of two new species". ZooKeys. 274 (274): 1–88. doi:10.3897/zookeys.274.4529. PMC 3677392. PMID 23794807.
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