Exhyalanthrax

Exhyalanthrax
Exhyalanthrax afer (Fabricius, 1794)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Brachycera
Infraorder:	Asilomorpha
Superfamily:	Asiloidea
Family:	Bombyliidae
Subfamily:	Anthracinae
Tribe:
Genus:	Exhyalanthrax Becker, 1916
Type species
Loew 1862
Species
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Exhyalanthrax is a small genus of bombyliid flies. Bombyliids are commonly known as bee flies due to their resemblance to bees.^[1] Exhyalanthrax are found in the Afrotropical realm and the Palearctic realm. Exhyalanthrax spp. are pupal parasitoids. Exhyalanthrax afer has been reared from pupae of tachinid and ichneumonid parasitoids of Thaumetopoea pityocampa and from the pupae of this species and other Lepidoptera. It has also been bred from cocoons of Neodiprion sertifer. Several African species have been reared from the puparia of tsetse flies and from puparia of other Diptera. An Exhyalanthrax sp. has also been found preying on cockroach, (Heterogamisca chopardi Uvarov) oothecae in Saudi Arabia. It has been suggested that Exhyalanthrax might be utilised as biological control agents especially in the battle against tsetse flies.

Species List[]

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• (Loew 1860)
• E. afer (Fabricius 1794)
• Becker 1916
• Báez 1990
• François 1962
• Becker 1916
• (Loew 1867)
• (Pallas 1818)
• (François 1970)
• Hesse, 1956

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