Oestranthrax Bezzi, 1921

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), African Invertebrates 42 (1820), pp. 105-224 : 210-211

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Oestranthrax Bezzi, 1921 a: 130 , 172 [1923: 326]. Type species: Anthrax obesa Loew, 1863 , by original designation.

Comments: Oestranthrax spp. adults are seldom collected, presumably because, being unable to feed, their life is short. However, like the other genera of Villini with vestigial mouthparts, the adults contain an unusual amount of fat, and dried specimens tend to become ‘greasy’.

Key: South and East Africa, Hesse (1956).

Hosts: One record as a parasitoid of Myrmeleontidae in Greece ( Yeates & Greathead 1997).

Distribution: Afrotropical and Holarctic Regions. North Africa: 3 species; Oestranthrax alfierii Paramonov ( Egypt) , O. brunnescens (Loew) ( Egypt) , O. pallifrons Bezzi ( Libya) . Africa South of the Sahara: 4 species, O. disparilis Hesse (KwaZulu-Natal) , O. obesus (Loew) (Namibia-Zambia) , O. pix Speiser ( Tanzania) , O. speiserianus Bezzi ( Kenya) .