Lepidanthrax

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Lepidanthrax
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Bombyliidae
Tribe: Villini
Genus: Lepidanthrax
Osten-Sacken, 1886[1]
Type species
Anthrax disiuncta[2]
Wiedemann, 1830

Lepidanthrax is a genus of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. There are at least 50 described species in Lepidanthrax.[3][4][5][6] The genus is primarily North and Central American, but one species is recorded from the Galapagos Islands and two are recorded from Australia.[7]

Species

References

  1. Osten Sacken, C.R. (1886). "Diptera [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana". Zoologia-Insecta-Diptera. 1: 105–128.
  2. Coquillett, Daniel William (1910). "The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 37 [1719]: 499–647. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  3. "Lepidanthrax Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  4. "Browse Lepidanthrax". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  5. "Lepidanthrax". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  6. "Lepidanthrax Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  7. Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J. (2015). "World catalog of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)". Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  8. Hall, J.C. (1976). "A revision of the North and Central American species of Lepidanthrax Osten Sacken (Diptera: Bombyliidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 102: 289–371.

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