Anthrax (fly)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Bombyliidae |
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| Genus: | Anthrax Scopoli, 1763 |
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| Anthrax anthrax | |
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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 flies often hover around people and land on them.[2] This one, a member of A. oedipus or a similar species, landed repeatedly on the photographer's jeans.
Early conception of the genus Anthrax sensu Meigen.Plate from Johann Wilhelm Meigen Europäischen Zweiflügeligen.The genus is now much more restricted Only one species depicted in this plate is still in Anthrax
- (Fabricius 1781)
- El-Hawagry, 2013[4]
- Say, 1823
- Anthrax anthrax (Schrank 1781)
- (Cole, 1919)
- Marston, 1963
- Marston, 1970
- Marston, 1963
- Wiedemann in Meigen 1820
- Báez 1983
- Anthrax cascadensis Marston, 1963
- Marston, 1970
- Marston, 1963
- Tsacas 1962
- Cole, 1957
- Marston, 1963
- (Coquillett, 1894)
- Becker 1907
- Wiedemann
- Evenhuis & Greathead 1999
- Fabricius, 1805
- François 1966
- El-Hawagry 1998
- Marston, 1970
- Zaitzev 1997
- Marston, 1970
- Anthrax larrea Marston, 1963
- Marston, 1970
- (Becker, 1892)
- El-Hawagry 1998
- Cole, 1952
- Anthrax nigriventris Marston, 1970
- Marston, 1970
- Fabricius, 1805
- Marston, 1970
- Anthrax pauper (Loew, 1869)
- François 1966
- Marston, 1963
- Strobl 1902
- (Curran, 1927)
- Williston, 1901
- Anthrax pluto Wiedemann, 1828
- Macquart 1835
- (Osten Sacken, 1886)
- (Johnson, 1913)
- Marston, 1970
- (Loew, 1869)
- Klug 1832
- Anthrax striatipennis Marston, 1970
- Meigen 1804
- Marston, 1963
- Fabricius 1794
- Egger 1859
- El-Hawagry 2002
- (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). . 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): 1–88. doi:10.3897/zookeys.274.4529. PMC 3677392. PMID 23794807.
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Categories:
- Bombyliidae genera
- Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli