Review of the genus Pachyanthrax François (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from Egypt, with description of two new species
Author
El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-26
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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.