Genus Poecilanthrax

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited

Fly in shades of brown - Poecilanthrax fasciatus

Diptera, Bombyliidae - Poecilanthrax alcyon

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Superfamily Asiloidea

Family Bombyliidae (Bee Flies)

Subfamily Anthracinae

Tribe Villini

Genus Poecilanthrax

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in(1)

Explanation of Names

Poecilanthrax Osten Sacken 1886

From Greek poecilos 'variegated' + Anthrax, another genus in this family

Numbers

34 spp. in our area, 40 total(2)

Range

NA (mostly nearctic) to Panama & West Indies; in our area, all but 5 spp. are restricted to w. NA(2)

Food

Endoparasitoids of Noctuidae pupae (Research.net. Yeates, D. The evolutionary pattern of host use in the Bombyliidae (Diptera): a diverse family of parasitoid flies)

Works Cited

1.	A monograph of the genus Poecilanthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae) Painter R.H., Hall J.C. 1960.

2.	Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2015) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 2 May, 2006 - 11:45pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Ted Kropiewnicki, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 23 June, 2015 - 12:56pm

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