Anthrax sticticus Klug, 1832

El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2021, Taxonomy of the genus Anthrax Scopoli (Diptera: Bombyliidae) in Egypt, Journal of Natural History 55 (9 - 10), pp. 597-624 : 617-618

Anthrax sticticus Klug, 1832 ( Figures 12 , 16 (d))

Anthrax stictica Klug, 1832 : pl. 30, fig. 14. Type locality: Saudi Arabia [as ‘Arabia felici’] .

Argyramoeba polystigma Sack, 1909: 534 . Type locality: Cyprus and Greece and Turkey .

Spongostylum quinquemaculatum Bezzi, 1920: 105 . Type locality: Guinea-Bissau [as ‘Guinea Portoghese’] .

Spongostylum quinquemaculatum Bezzi, 1924: 170 . Type locality: Senegal . Preoccupied by Bezzi, 1920.

Diagnosis

Male and female: About 8 mm in length ( Figure 16 (d)). Frons with black hairs mixed with some yellow-white scaly hairs. Face, occiput and pleura with white hairs mixed with a few black hairs at face. Scutum and scutellum black-haired, with some white-brown scaly hairs. Wing pattern composed of brown spots on cross-vein r-m and origin of vein R2+3, on origin of vein R4, on cross-vein m-m, on base of cell m2, and a larger one on bases of cells cua1 and dm; costal and subcostal cells infuscated brown and this infuscation extends to bases of cells br, bm and cup; it extends also to cross-vein bm-cu through the tip of cell bm and the middle of cell br. Abdomen black, with black hairs except for white hairs on first tergite and rows of white scaly hairs on hind margins of tergites giving the abdomen a banded appearance. Gonocoxites ( Figure 12 (a)) truncate, triangular; epiphallus simple; aedeagus massive ( Figure 12 (b,c)). Spermatheca ( Figure 12 (d)) with a balloon-shaped, well-sclerotised bulb and a long, well-sclerotised pump.

Material examined

I male, W. El-Arbaein (28.5469°N, 33.9530°E), 21 May 1997; 1 female, 1 male, same locality, 12 July 1998 (M. El-Hawagry, leg.) [ MSHC] .

Figures

Figure 12. Anthrax sticticus: (a) gonocoxites, ventral view; (b) hypopygium, lateral view; (c) tip of epiphallus, dorsal view; (d) spermatheca.

Figure 16. Anthrax spp., habitus: (a) A. galali; (b) A. moursyi; (c) A. pharaonis, neotype; (d) A. sticticus; (e) A. trifasciatus; (f) A. zohrayensis.