Species Anthrax maculatus Macquart, 1846

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Species Anthrax maculatus Macquart, 1846

Anthrax maculata Macquart, J. 1846. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplément. Mémoires de la Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille 1844: 133-364, pls 1-20 [The date on the wrapper of the journal is 1846, the date on the title page is 1845. The last 4 pages of this paper in the journal (containing the index) are numbered 363, 364, 363, 364. The next article in the journal begins on page 365. The pagination of the reprint is continuous, thus the reprint appears to contain 2 additional pages. Reprinted with pagination 5-238, Roret, Paris, with "1846" on both the wrapper and title page. Reprint recorded in the 7 November 1846 issue of Bibliogr. Fr. The Bibliogr. Fr. mentions the journal version in the 22 August 1846 issue; it was presented by Macquart at the 22 July 1846 meeting of the Société Entomologique de France] [240].
Type data:

Syntype(s) MNHP 13/44 3♂ ♀, locality unknown;
Status unknown.
Anthrax diana Walker, F. 1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. London : British Museum pp. [iii] + 231–484. [Date published April 21] [252].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, ' 47 109/W. Australia'; BMNH ♂, ' W. Australia, 47, 109'.
Anthrax australis Walker, F. 1852. Diptera (Part III). pp. 157-252 in Saunders, W.W. (ed.). Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. London : Van Voorst Vol. 1 474 pp. [193].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH BM 1868 -4 ♂, 'An. australis - W.W./ Swan R./ 68.4/ Tasmania - Swan R.'; BMNH ♀, 'V.D.L./54 / australis ';
Status unknown.
Anthrax maculatus Theodor, O. 1983. The Genitalia of Bombyliidae. Jerusalem : Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities. [202] [junior homonym of Anthrax maculata Maquart, 1846].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Timor.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults collected flying around burnt trees and mud wasp nests.

Diagnosis

Eyes separated by 1.83 width of ocellar triangle in male and 2.23 width of ocellar triangle in female. Frons with short black hairs and tomentum. Antennal pedicel conical, junction between pedicel and flagellum loose, flagellum broad based, abruptly tapering toward apex, ventral flange extending around pedicel. Cervical collar with black and white hairs admixed; scutum with black hairs and tomentum. Haltere knob dark brown with apical third cream. Integumental colour of coxae and femora dark brown; integumental colour of tibiae and tarsi light brown. Wing venation with CuA2 and A1 usually separate; base of R2+3 meeting r-m crossvein directly, spur-vein usually present at base of R2+3 and present at base of R4; R4 with spur branch into cell r4, sometimes meeting wing margin. Wing pattern dark brown-black with hyaline patches in apical and posterior sections of wing (Figs 3, 4). Position size and shape of hyaline regions varies but they usually occur in apex of cell r2+3, cells r4, r5, m1, m2, dm and cua1. Abdominal tergite 1 with erect white hairs; tergites 2–5 with black hairs and dense black scales except some white scales admixed at apex of tergite 2; male tergites 6 and 7 with dense, shining silver scales, interrupted medially on tergite 6 (Fig. 61); female tergites 6 and 7 without silver scales. Male genitalia (Figs 57, 58) with swollen basiphallus and epiphallus with single, small, dorsal, apical hook, lateral flanges present at apex of phallus in dorsal view; gonostyli with thickened base ending in a tooth on lateral margin and with elongate, straight, apical finger. Female genitalia (Figs 59, 60) with elongate-oval spermathecal bulb, neck of spermathecae sclerotised and curved through 180°, and poorly differentiated sperm pump and distal end-plate, proximal end-plate absent. Furcal rods with narrow longitudinal rod and wide, plate-like lateral arm.