Exhyalanthrax

<i>Exhyalanthrax</i>

Exhyalanthrax

Genus of flies

Exhyalanthrax is a small genus of bombyliid flies.[1] Bombyliids are commonly known as bee flies due to their resemblance to bees.[2] Exhyalanthrax are found in the Afrotropical realm and the Palearctic realm. Exhyalanthrax spp. are pupal parasitoids. Exhyalanthrax afer has been reared from pupae of tachinid and ichneumonid parasitoids of Thaumetopoea pityocampa and from the pupae of this species and other Lepidoptera. It has also been bred from cocoons of Neodiprion sertifer. Several African species have been reared from the puparia of tsetse flies and from puparia of other Diptera. An Exhyalanthrax sp. has also been found preying on cockroach, (Heterogamisca chopardi Uvarov) oothecae in Saudi Arabia. It has been suggested that Exhyalanthrax might be utilised as biological control agents especially in the battle against tsetse flies.

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Species List

  • Exhyalanthrax abruptus (Loew, 1860)
  • Exhyalanthrax afer (Fabricius, 1794)[3]
  • Exhyalanthrax argentifer Becker, 1916
  • Exhyalanthrax canarionae Báez, 1990
  • Exhyalanthrax collarti François, 1962
  • Exhyalanthrax contrarius Becker, 1916
  • Exhyalanthrax melanchlaenus (Loew, 1867)
  • Exhyalanthrax muscarius (Pallas, 1818)
  • Exhyalanthrax simonae (François, 1970)
  • Exhyalanthrax vicinalis Hesse, 1956

References

  1. [1]
    Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J (1999). World catalog of the bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. pp. xlviii + 756 pp.
  2. [2]
    Hull, F.M. (1973). Bee flies of the world. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 687 pp. ISBN 0-87474-131-9.
  3. [3]
    Fabricius, Johan Christian (1794). Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Tome IV. Hafniae [=Copenhagen]: C.G. Proft. pp. [6] + 472 + [5] pp. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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