Exhyalanthrax afer (Fabricius, 1794)

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 34

Exhyalanthrax afer (Fabricius, 1794)

Material: 13 specimens: Ajlun 27.V.2002 (1Ψ); Al Jubayhah 22.V.1979 (1Ψ); Al Muwaqqar 16.IX.2002 (1Ψ); Al Wala 8.IV.2002 (1Ψ); Ayn Aqraba 29.IV.2002 (1Ψ); As Salt 2.IX.2002 (1Ψ); Dana 23.IX.2002 (1Ψ); Dayr Alla 8.IV.1974 (1Ψ); Hummrit As Sahin 3.VI.2002 (2Ψ), 22.VI.2002 (1Ψ); Kafr Huda 2.IX.2002 (1Ψ); Khdayr 6.IX.1981 (1Ψ) (Al Yarmouk University).

Distribution: Afrotropical: Chad, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Yemen. Oriental: Pakistan. Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Gruzia, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Libya, Macedonia, Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.

Exhyalanthrax afer is a common species in Jordan. It is a hyperparasitoid of the pupae of the dipterous and hymenopterous parasitoid Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffermüller) (Thaumetopoeidae) , it is also a parasitoid in the puparia of muscoid flies (du Merle, 1975).