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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Anthracinae » Villini » Chrysanthrax

Genus Chrysanthrax

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited
Bee Fly at Eriogonum fasciculatum - Chrysanthrax vanus Chrysanthrax arenosus - male Chrysanthrax vanus Bee Fly? - Chrysanthrax Bee Fly - Chrysanthrax dispar Fly - Chrysanthrax cypris Chrysanthrax dispar Paler form of C. dispar from AZ - Chrysanthrax dispar
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 Chrysanthrax
Explanation of Names
Chrysanthrax Osten Sacken 1886
Numbers
30 spp. in our area, 55 total(1)
Range
New World, US to Argentina & Chile; in our area, all but 3 spp. are western, esp. diverse in CA & sw. US; C. cypris & C. dispar are widespread in e. US, C. edititius ranges east to MI-OH-TX(1)
Food
Reported as an external parasitoid of cocoons of Tiphiidae and Anthophoridae (Yeates 1997)
See Also
Hemipenthes has similar wing pattern that is less straight, more sinuate, plus dark hair on body. Poecilanthrax has no scales on the face.
Works Cited
1.Evenhuis N.L., Greathead D.J. (2015) World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) web site
Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 3 October, 2004 - 7:26pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 23 July, 2021 - 3:42am

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