Pachyanthrax circe ( Klug, 1832 )

El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2018, Review of the genus Pachyanthrax François (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from Egypt, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4375 (4), pp. 502-510 : 505

Pachyanthrax circe ( Klug, 1832)

( Figs 13, 17 )

Anthrax circe Klug, 1832 : pl. 30, fig. 12.

Pachyanthrax circe ( Klug, 1832) : Greathead (1981: 320). Type locality: Upper Egypt [2S in ZMHB].

Distribution. OR: Pakistan. PA: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

Egyptian localities. Coastal Strip: Borg El?Arab, Mariuot; Eastern Desert: Wadi El-Rehaybi , Wadi Gharaba , Wadi Hoff, Wadi Ibtadi ; Sinai: Wadi Garagneyia , Wadi Gedeirat; Upper Egypt:?.

Dates of collection. March to August.

Diagnosis. Body length: about 9.1 mm, wing length: about 8.6 mm; frons and face with black hairs and yellowish-white scales; frons black in the ground colour; ocellar triangle brownish; scape and pedicel yellowish brown with numerous long black bristly hairs, flagellum dark brown; Scutum and basal half of scutellum black in the ground colour, apical half of scutellum brown; collar brownish-yellow, rest vestiture of thorax yellowish-white; wings hyaline with yellowish basicostal infuscation; legs yellowish-brown, become darker at tarsi, covered with whitish scales especially on middle and hind legs; abdomen black in the ground colour with numerous white hairs mixed with some black ones especially on sides of tergites 2–6; tergites 2–5 with transverse bands of white scales alternated with narrow dark brown ones; tergites 6, 7 densely covered with yellowish-brown and whitish yellow scales.

Material examined. 3 ♂ & 1 ♀, Mariout (El-Burg), 18.4.1925 (Efflatoun); 1 ♂, Mariout, 12.4.1913 (Efflatoun); 1 ♀, Wadi El-Rehaybi, 14.4.1930 (Tewfik); 2 ♂, Wadi Gharaba, 14.4.1927 (H.C.E & M.T); 1 ♀, Wadi Ibtadi, 12.4.1927 (H.C.E & M.T); 1 ♂, Wadi Hoff, 14.4.1921 (Tewfik); 1 ♂ Wadi Gedeirat, 26.3.1936 (Efflatoun); preserved in EFC.

Figures

FIGURES 12–18. Egyptian Pachyanthrax. 12–16. Habitus: 12. Holotype ♂, Pachyanthrax amri sp. nov.; 13. Pachyanthrax circe (Klug, 1832); 14. Holotype ♂, Pachyanthrax mogyi sp. nov.; 15. Pachyanthrax nomadorum (Greathead, 1970); 16. Pachyanthrax tabaninus (Bezzi, 1925).17–18. Male genitalia:17. Pachyanthrax circe (Klug, 1832), lateral; 18. Pachyanthrax nomadorum (Greathead, 1970), lateral.