Anthrax melanistus
| Main Author: | El-Hawagry, Magdi S. |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment |
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, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5497364 |
Daftar Isi:
- Anthrax melanistus (Bezzi, 1925) (Figures 10, 15 (e)) Argyramoeba melanista Bezzi, 1925: 221. Type locality: Egypt (Wadi Hoff, Wadi Rishrash). Diagnosis Male: Body shining black with a bluish lustre, 6–8.5 mm in length (Figure 15 (e)). Frons dusted grey above the antennae and silvery white at eye margins, black haired. Face dusted silvery white and black haired at lower margin. Scutum and scutellum exclusively with sparse black hairs and bristles. Anterior margin of scutum blackish haired. Pleura grey dusted on lower part, black haired. Wings clear with very faint indication of small spots on cross-vein r-m, origin of vein R2+3, and radial sector and anterior branch of cubitus (Figure 15 (e)). Subcostal cell faint yellow-brown. Plumula black with whitish tips. Abdomen with sparse black hairs, and corners of 1st tergite with tufts of black hairs; tergites 2–4 with short black scaly hairs, but tergites 5–7 with dense brown-yellow scales on sides; posterior margins of tergites with fairly long, black bristles. Gonocoxites (Figure 10 (a)) quadratic, with two apical prolongations with normal black, short, spine-like setae apically; epiphallus (Figure 10 (b,c)) with spines at the tip. Female: Similar to male; however, upper part of frons narrower than in male and abdomen entirely without scales. Spermatheca (Figure 10 (d)) with an egg-shaped, strongly sclerotised bulb, slightly constricted at lower third. Material examined Lectotype male, W. Hoff (29.8821°N, 31.3110°E), 10 March 1922 (Efflatoun, leg.); paralectotypes: 1 male and 1 female, W. Rishrash (29.4642°N, 31.3672°E), 3 March 1922 (Efflatoun, leg.) [ESEC]. 1 male, 1 female, W. Garawi (29.7833°N, 31.3167°E), 25 March 1932 (Efflatoun, leg.); 1 male, 1 female, W. Hoff (29.8821°N, 31.3110°E), 4 April 1930 (Farag, leg.); 1 male, 1 female, W. Rishrash (29.4642°N, 31.3672°E), 27 March 1935 (Efflatoun, leg.); 1 male, W. Zohleiga (26.1333°N, 33.7500°E), 25–29 March 1925 (Efflatoun, leg.) [EFC].
- Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2021, Taxonomy of the genus Anthrax Scopoli (Diptera: Bombyliidae) in Egypt, pp. 597-624 in Journal of Natural History 55 (9 - 10) on pages 614-615, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1914237, http://zenodo.org/record/5477393