Pachyanthrax François, 1964

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), African Invertebrates 42 (1820), pp. 105-224 : 211

Pachyanthrax François

Pachyanthrax François, 1964 b: 929 . Type species: Pachyanthrax villiersi François, 1964 , by original designation.

Comments: After Pachyanthrax had been described for a new species from Senegal, it became apparent that certain anomalous species that had been placed in Thyridanthrax , Villa or Exoprosopa , belonged to this genus. The species are broad-bodied and have an Exoprosopa -like vestiture.

Keys: Palaearctic, Engel (1932 –7); Afrotropical, Bezzi (1924), both as Thyridanthrax . Distribution:Afrotropical and Palaearctic Regions. North Africa: 3 species; Pachyanthrax albosegmentatus (Engel) ( Egypt) , P. circe (Klug) ( Egypt) , P. nomadorum (Greathead) ( Morocco) .Africa South of the Sahara:5 species; P. cunamae (Greathead) ( Eritrea, Kenya), P. lutulentus (Bezzi) ( Botswana, Namibia), P. nomadorum ( Nigeria, Mauritania), P vetulus (Wiedemann) ( Eritrea, Sudan), P. villiersi François ( Niger, Senegal).