Anthrax Scopoli 1763 (bee fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae

Full reference: G. A. Scopoli. 1763. Entomologica Carniolica Exhibens Insecta Carnioliae Indigena et Distributa in Ordines, Genera, Species, Varietates Methodo Linnaeana 1-421

Parent taxon: Anthracini according to N. L. Evenhuis and D. J. Greathead 1999

See also Aldrich 1905, Greenwalt and Evenhuis 2015, Latreille 1796, Latreille 1802, Lewis 1969 and Scopoli 1763

Sister taxon: Spogostylum

Subtaxa: Anthrax succini

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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