Anthrax sticticus Klug, 1832

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 27-28

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158701
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6272302
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scientific name	Anthrax sticticus Klug, 1832
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Material: Three specimens: As Salt 1.IX.1993 (1Ψ); Wadi Shuqayq 24.IX.2002 (2ɗ).

Distribution: Afrotropical: Chad, Eritrea, GuineaBissau, Nigeria, Senegal. Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Greece, Gruzia, Iran, Italy, Kyrgyz Republic, Macedonia, Oman, Palestine, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.

Greathead (1967) suggested that this species is a parasite of mud dauber wasps ( Sphecidae ) ( ElHawagry et al 2000) and has also been reared from megachilid bees (du Merle, 1975).