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Anthrax is a genus of bombyliid flies, commonly known as bee flies due to their often remarkable resemblance to bees. Most are dull black flies, and are usually small to medium in size, 4 - 20mm. 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 to tiger beetles - a trait unusual amongst the bombyliids. A. anthrax larvae parasitize bees.
The type species is Musca morio Linnaeus, 1758, later found to be a misidentification of Musca anthrax Schrank, 1781.
Species List
- A. aethiops (Fabricius 1781)
- A. analis Say, 1823
- A. anthrax (Schrank 1781)
- A. argentatus (Cole, 1919)
- A. artemesia Marston, 1963
- A. atriplex Marston, 1970
- A. aureosquamosus Marston, 1963
- A. binotatus Wiedemann in Meigen 1820
- A. bowdeni Báez 1983
- A. cascadensis Marston, 1963
- A. cathetodaithmos Marston, 1970
- A. chaparralus Marston, 1963
- A. chionostigma Tsacas 1962
- A. cintalapa Cole, 1957
- A. columbiensis Marston, 1963
- A. cybele (Coquillett, 1894)
- A. dentata Becker 1907
- A. distigma Wiedemann
- A. francoisi Evenhuis & Greathead 1999
- A. gideon Fabricius, 1805
- A. giselae François 1966
- A. innublipennis Marston, 1970
- A. johanni Zaitzev 1997
- A. koebelei Marston, 1970
- A. larrea Marston, 1963
- A. laticellus Marston, 1970
- A. melanopogon (Becker, 1892)
- A. nidicola Cole, 1952
- A. nigriventris Marston, 1970
- A. nitidus Marston, 1970
- A. oedipus Fabricius, 1805
- A. painteri Marston, 1970
- A. pauper (Loew, 1869)
- A. pelopeius François 1966
- A. picea Marston, 1963
- A. pilosulus Strobl 1902
- A. plesius (Curran, 1927)
- A. pluricellus Williston, 1901
- A. pluto Wiedemann, 1828
- A. punctulatus Macquart 1835
- A. seriepinctatus (Osten Sacken, 1886)
- A. slossonae (Johnson, 1913)
- A. snowi Marston, 1970
- A. stellans (Loew, 1869)
- A. sticticus Klug 1832
- A. striatipennis Marston, 1970
- A. trifasciatus Meigen 1804
- A. vallicola Marston, 1963
- A. varius Fabricius 1794
- A. virgo Egger 1859
- A. zonabriphagus (Portchinsky 1895)
References
- ^ Hull, F.M. (1973). Bee flies of the world. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 687 pp. ISBN 0874741319.
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