Species Anthrax siccus Yeates & Lambkin, 1999

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anthrax siccus Evenhuis, N.L. & Greathead, D.J. 1999. World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden, Netherlands : Backhuys xlviii+756 pp. [314] [replacement name].
• Anthrax funestus Yeates, D.K. & Lambkin, C.L. 1998. Review of the tribe Anthracini (Diptera: Bombyliidae) in Australia: cryptic species diversity and the description of Thraxon, gen. nov. Invertebrate Taxonomy 12(6): 977-1078 [1024] [preoccupied by Walker 1849].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, WA, 28°18'S 114°31'E, 13 km WNW Northhampton.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂, WA, 10 [mls 16 km] S Perenjor; WADA P.N.F. 19804 ♂, WA, King's Park; ANIC ♂ ♀, WA, Freemantle; WADA P.N.F. 19807 ♀, WA, Capel; WADA P.N.F. 19802, 19808 2♂, WA, Capel, Peppermint Grove; WADA P.N.F. 19803, 19810 2♀, WA, Australind; GDCB ♂, VIC, Wyperfield Natl Park, 35°33'S 142°01'E.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evenhuis, N.L. & Greathead, D.J. 1999. World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden, Netherlands : Backhuys xlviii+756 pp. [314]

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Flagellum with base about size and shape of pedicel, abruptly tapering toward apex. Haltere knob dark brown with apical edge cream. Wing venation with spur-vein at base R2+3 absent, spur-vein into cell r2+3 absent, spur-vein at base of R4 absent, branch on R4 absent; CuA2 joining A1 at wing margin. Wings infuscated dark brown, anterobasal portion of wing darker than apical region with division between regions running from apex of A1 to apex of Sc with small, rounded extension into cell r5 adjacent to m-m and r4 (Fig. 14). Tergites 2–7 with dark brown hairs and tomentum; some light brown tomentum admixed especially along posterior margin of segments. Male genitalia (Figs 131, 132) with rounded basiphallus and epiphallus with small dorsal apical hook, ventral apical flange sharp in lateral view forming broad, short lateral flanges surrounding apex of phallus in dorsal view. Female genitalia with spermathecal bulb round with blunt apical point, attached to pump by long, narrow neck.

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