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Type: Article
Published: 2002-11-26
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Three new species of anthracine bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from Egypt

Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt
Diptera New species Anthrax Spogostylum bee flies Egypt

Abstract

Three new anthracine species of Bombyliidae are described. Two of these species (Anthrax galali El-Hawagry, sp. nov. and Anthrax zohrayensis El-Hawagry, sp. nov.) were proposed by Efflatoun Bey in his unpublished manuscript in the genus Anthrax Scopoli (sensu lato). These species names are maintained but the descriptions are shortened and revised. A third species, not included in Efflatoun unpublished manuscript, Spogostylum hamadnallahi El-Hawagry, sp. nov., is herein described and illustrated.

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