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Exhyalanthrax

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Diptera

Infraorder
  
Asilomorpha

Scientific name
  
Exhyalanthrax

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Suborder
  
Brachycera

Superfamily
  
Asiloidea

Higher classification
  
Bombyliidae

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Similar
  
Bombyliidae, Fly, Insect, Exoprosopa, Systoechus

Exhyalanthrax is a small genus of bombyliid flies. Bombyliids are commonly known as bee flies due to their resemblance to bees. Exhyalanthrax are found in the Afrotropical ecozone and the Palearctic ecozone. 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.

Species List

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

    Exhyalanthrax Wikipedia