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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.^[5]

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.^[6]^[7]

The type species is Musca morio Linnaeus, 1758, later found to be a misidentification of Musca anthrax Schrank, 1781.^[8]

Species

Anthrax flies often hover around people and land on them.^[6] 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

Anthrax actuosus Paramonov, 1935^[9]
Anthrax alagoezicus Paramonov, 1935^[9]
Anthrax albofasciatus Macquart, 1840^[10]
Anthrax alruqibi El-Hawagry, 2013^[11]
Anthrax analis Say, 1823^[12]
Anthrax anthrax (Schrank, 1781)^[1]
Anthrax argentatus (Cole, 1919)
Anthrax artemesia Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax atriplex Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax aureosquamosus Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax bezzianus Paramonov, 1935^[9]
Anthrax binotatus Wiedemann in Meigen 1820^[15]
Anthrax bowdeni Báez, 1983
Anthrax cascadensis Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax cathetodaithmos Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax chaparralus Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax chionostigma Tsacas, 1962
Anthrax cintalapa Cole, 1957
Anthrax columbiensis Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax cybele (Coquillett, 1894)
Anthrax dentata Becker, 1907
Anthrax distigma Wiedemann, 1828
Anthrax francoisi Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999^[7]
Anthrax gideon Fabricius, 1805
Anthrax giselae François, 1966
Anthrax greatheadi El-Hawagry, 1998
Anthrax innublipennis Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax johanni Zaitzev, 1997
Anthrax koebelei Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax larrea Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax laticellus Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax melanopogon (Becker, 1892)
Anthrax moursyi El-Hawagry, 1998
Anthrax nidicola Cole, 1952
Anthrax nigriventris Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax nitidus Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax oedipus Fabricius, 1805
Anthrax painteri Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax pauper (Loew, 1869)^[16]
Anthrax pelopeius François, 1966
Anthrax picea Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax pilosulus Strobl, 1902
Anthrax plesius (Curran, 1927)
Anthrax pluricellus Williston, 1901
Anthrax pluto Wiedemann, 1828^[17]
Anthrax punctulatus Macquart, 1835
Anthrax seriepunctatus (Osten Sacken, 1886)^[18]
Anthrax slossonae (Johnson, 1913)
Anthrax snowi Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax stellans (Loew, 1869)^[16]
Anthrax sticticus Klug, 1832
Anthrax striatipennis Marston, 1970^[14]
Anthrax trifasciatus Meigen, 1804
Anthrax vallicola Marston, 1963^[13]
Anthrax varius Fabricius, 1794
Anthrax virgo Egger, 1859
Anthrax zohrayensis El-Hawagry, 2002
Anthrax zonabriphagus (Portchinsky, 1895

References

^ ^a ^b Schrank, F. von Paula (1781). Envmeratio insectorvm Avstriae indigenorum. Augustae Vindelicorum [=Augsburg]: Eberhardi Klett et Franck. pp. xxiv + 548 + [4] pp., 4 pls. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
^ Macquart, P.J.M. (1847). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 2.e supplement. Paris: Roret. pp. 104 pp, 6 pls.
^ Scudder, S. H. (1882). "Nomenclator zoologicus. Part 1. Supplemental list of genera in zoology". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 19 (1): xxi + 367. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b Sack, P. (1909). "Die palaearktischen Spongostylinen". Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 30: 501–548. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J (1999). World catalog of the bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. pp. xlviii + 756 pp. ISBN 90-5782-039-0. OCLC 248444103. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Paramonov, S.J. (1935). "Beiträge zur Monographie der Gattung Anthrax (Bombyliidae) [I]". Zbirnik Prats Zoologichnogo Muzeyu Ukrain'ska Akademya Nauk. 16: 3–31.
^ Macquart, P.J.M. (1840). Diptères exotiques nouveauxou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--1er partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.274.4529. PMC 3677392. PMID 23794807.
^ Say, Thomas (1823). "Descriptions of dipterous insects of the United States". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 3: 73–104. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Marston, N.L. (1963). "A revision of the Nearctic species of the albofasciatus group of the genus Anthrax Scopoli (Diptera: Bombyliidae)" (PDF). Technical Bulletin, Kansas Agricultural Experimental Station. 127: 1–79. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Marston, N.L. (1970). "Revision of the New World species of Anthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae) other than Anthrax albofasciatus group" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 43: 1–148. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^ Meigen, J.W. (1820). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Aachen: Zweiter Theil. Forstmann. pp. xxxvi + 363. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b Loew, H. (1869). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria octava". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 13: 1–52. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^ Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1828). Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Hamm: Zweiter Theil. Schulz. pp. xxxii + 608 pp., 7 pls.
^ Osten Sacken, C.R. (1886). "Diptera [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana". Zoologia-Insecta-Diptera. 1: 105–128.

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