Anthrax (fly) explained
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, 4mm20mm, 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] [3]
The type species is Musca morio Linnaeus, 1758, later found to be a misidentification of Musca anthrax Schrank, 1781.[4]
Species
- Anthrax actuosus Paramonov, 1935[5]
- Anthrax alagoezicus Paramonov, 1935[5]
- Anthrax albofasciatus Macquart, 1840[6]
- Anthrax alruqibi El-Hawagry, 2013[7]
- Anthrax analis Say, 1823[8]
- Anthrax anthrax (Schrank, 1781)
- Anthrax argentatus (Cole, 1919)
- Anthrax artemesia Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax atriplex Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax aureosquamosus Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax bezzianus Paramonov, 1935[5]
- Anthrax binotatus Wiedemann in Meigen 1820[11]
- Anthrax bowdeni Báez, 1983
- Anthrax cascadensis Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax cathetodaithmos Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax chaparralus Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax chionostigma Tsacas, 1962
- Anthrax cintalapa Cole, 1957
- Anthrax columbiensis Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax cybele (Coquillett, 1894)
- Anthrax dentata Becker, 1907
- Anthrax distigma Wiedemann, 1828
- Anthrax francoisi Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999[3]
- Anthrax gideon Fabricius, 1805
- Anthrax giselae François, 1966
- Anthrax greatheadi El-Hawagry, 1998
- Anthrax innublipennis Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax johanni Zaitzev, 1997
- Anthrax koebelei Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax larrea Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax laticellus Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax melanopogon (Becker, 1892)
- Anthrax moursyi El-Hawagry, 1998
- Anthrax nidicola Cole, 1952
- Anthrax nigriventris Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax nitidus Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax oedipus Fabricius, 1805
- Anthrax painteri Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax pauper (Loew, 1869)[12]
- Anthrax pelopeius François, 1966
- Anthrax picea Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax pilosulus Strobl, 1902
- Anthrax plesius (Curran, 1927)
- Anthrax pluricellus Williston, 1901
- Anthrax pluto Wiedemann, 1828[13]
- Anthrax punctulatus Macquart, 1835
- Anthrax seriepunctatus (Osten Sacken, 1886)[14]
- Anthrax slossonae (Johnson, 1913)
- Anthrax snowi Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax stellans (Loew, 1869)[12]
- Anthrax sticticus Klug, 1832
- Anthrax striatipennis Marston, 1970[10]
- Anthrax trifasciatus Meigen, 1804
- Anthrax vallicola Marston, 1963[9]
- Anthrax varius Fabricius, 1794
- Anthrax virgo Egger, 1859
- Anthrax zohrayensis El-Hawagry, 2002
- Anthrax zonabriphagus (Portchinsky, 1895
Notes and References
- Book: F. M. Hull . 1973 . Bee flies of the world. The genera of the family Bombyliidae . 1–687 . . 0-87474-131-9 . Washington .
- Book: Eaton . Eric R. . Kaufman . Kenn . 2007 . Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America . Houghton Mifflin . 292 . 978-0-618-15310-7.
- Book: Evenhuis . N.L. . Greathead . D.J . World catalog of the bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) . 1999 . Backhuys Publishers . Leiden . xlviii + 756 pp. 10 July 2022. 90-5782-039-0. 248444103.
- Magdi S. El-Hawagry . Aly A. El-Moursy . Francis Gilbert . Samy Zalat . 2000 . The tribe Anthracini Latreille (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Egypt . . 2 . 97–117 .
- Paramonov . S.J. . Beiträge zur Monographie der Gattung Anthrax (Bombyliidae) [I]. . Zbirnik Prats Zoologichnogo Muzeyu Ukrain'ska Akademya Nauk . 1935 . 16 . 3–31.
- Book: Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveauxou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--1er partie. . 1840 . Roret . Paris . 135 pp., 21 pls..
- 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 . 1–88 . 10.3897/zookeys.274.4529 . 23794807 . 3677392. free .
- Say . Thomas . Descriptions of dipterous insects of the United States . Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . 1823 . 3 . 73–104 . 1 May 2020.
- Marston . N.L. . A revision of the Nearctic species of the albofasciatus group of the genus Anthrax Scopoli (Diptera: Bombyliidae). . Technical Bulletin, Kansas Agricultural Experimental Station . 1963 . 127 . 1–79 . 15 July 2022.
- Marston . N.L. . Revision of the New World species of Anthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae) other than Anthrax albofasciatus group . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 1970 . 43 . 1–148 . 15 July 2022.
- Book: Meigen . J.W. . Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten . 1820 . Zweiter Theil. Forstmann . Aachen . xxxvi + 363 . 8 July 2022.
- Loew . H. . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria octava . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1869 . 13 . 1–52 . 15 July 2022.
- Book: Wiedemann . Christian Rudolph Wilhelm . Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks . 1828 . Zweiter Theil. Schulz . Hamm . xxxii + 608 pp., 7 pls .
- Osten Sacken . C.R. . Diptera [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana. . Zoologia-Insecta-Diptera . 1886 . 1 . 105–128.