Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Anthrax?

Posted by Roden on 15-02-2015 19:27
#1

Can you help me to identify this?
Taken in Chile, coastal of Atacama desert.


2.bp.blogspot.com/-8CrXzXuz0lk/VODkg67V_CI/AAAAAAAABlY/m7y77Mcgz1g/s1600/Anthrax.jpg

Posted by John Carr on 15-02-2015 20:32
#2

The wing is similar to the common North and Central American Anthrax irroratus but R2+3 and R4 are much less angular than that species. The reference you want is

Hall, J. C. 1976. The Bombyliidae of Chile. University of California Publications in Entomology 76:1-278

(I do not have it.)

Edited by John Carr on 15-02-2015 20:33

Posted by Roden on 21-02-2015 00:32
#3

Thank you, very much, John

Posted by John Carr on 08-08-2015 02:12
#4

I forgot that the revision of American Anthrax includes South America. This is probably close to Anthrax oedipus Fabricius, but I don't see enough to put a species name on it.

Marston, Norman L. 1970. Revision of New World Species of Anthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae), Other than the Anthrax Albofasciatus Group. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 43. https://repositor...10088/5287

Posted by Roden on 22-08-2015 02:25
#5

Thank you. |t