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03B587DBDC6DFF8DFF4FFE22FD55FDBE.text	03B587DBDC6DFF8DFF4FFE22FD55FDBE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken 1886	<div><p>Genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken</p><p>Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken 1886: 113 (as subgenus of Anthrax Scopoli). Type species: Anthrax selene Osten Sacken 1886, by subsequent designation (Coquillett 1910: 615).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC6DFF8DFF4FFE22FD55FDBE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC6AFF8AFF4FFF66FE2AFC21.text	03B587DBDC6AFF8AFF4FFF66FE2AFC21.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax anomalus Greathead 1980	<div><p>Thyridanthrax anomalus Greathead, 1980</p><p>Thyridanthrax anomalus Greathead 1980: 324 . Type locality: Saudi Arabia.</p><p>Distribution: PA: Saudi Arabia.</p><p>Saudi Arabian localities: Makkah: Al-Baha-Taief Road (Taief Governorate), Wadi Fatimah (Al-Jamoum Governorate) .</p><p>Material examined: KSA: 1 female in a bad condition, Al-Baha-Taief Road, 3.VIII.2009 (Col. El-Hawagry) [from personal collection of El-Hawagry] .</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: approximately 12 mm. Head with upper part of frons and occiput black in ground color, remainder reddish; frons with grey tomentum, sparse black hairs and golden yellow scales; face rounded, barely projecting beyond curve of frons, with short pale yellowish hairs and white scales; scape and pedicel reddishbrown with black hairs; flagellum black. Thorax dull black with scutellum, except on its extreme base, postpronotal lobe and postalar callus reddish-brown; hairs of collar pale and prealar tuft yellow; hairs on pleura whitish; scales on pleura, margins of scutellum, behind collar, and around wing bases white; hairs on disc of scutum and scutellum ochreous-yellow to brownish-black. Legs with coxae grayish-brown, femora yellowish-brown, tibiae brown, tarsi blackish-brown. Wings, except for yellowish base, gray with darker areas around pale fenestrae; base of costa black with brown scales; calypter gray with white fringe. Abdomen reddish-brown in ground color, with 1 st tergite and middle parts of 2 nd and 3 rd tergites black; 1 st tergite with white hairs and scales, and narrow band of blackish scales across middle two-thirds of posterior margin; 2 nd tergite with white scales on base forming a transverse band, remainder with black scales; basal half of 3 rd tergite, entire 4 th tergite, and apical halves of 5 th– 7 th tergites with white scales, rest of these tergites with black scales; hairs weak, sparse, and black, except strong hairs on 6 th tergite and yellowish hairs on 7 th tergite.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC6AFF8AFF4FFF66FE2AFC21	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC6AFF8BFF4FFBE7FCD0FE80.text	03B587DBDC6AFF8BFF4FFBE7FCD0FE80.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax decipulus (Austen 1937)	<div><p>Thyridanthrax decipulus (Austen, 1937) [New record from Egypt]</p><p>(Figs. 2 – 9)</p><p>Villa decipulus Austen 1937: 143 . Type locality: Palestine (West Bank).</p><p>Distribution: AF: Oman, United Arab Emirates. PA: Egypt, Palestine (West Bank), Saudi Arabia.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Sinai: Wadi Gharba .</p><p>Saudi Arabian localities: Al-Baha: nr. Al-Mekhwa (Al-Mekhwa Governorate). Al-Qassim: Bureida City (Bureida Governorate).</p><p>Material examined: EGY: 2 males, Wadi Gharba, 14.IV.1927 (Efflatoun) [EFC]. KSA: 1 male, nr. Al-Mekhwa (Al-Baha-Al-Mekhwa Road), 5.V.2012 (El-Hawagry) [in personal collection of El-Hawagry].</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: approximately 13 mm. Frons and occiput mainly dark gray in ground color; face brownish, with large grayish median spot; oral margin yellowish; upper part of frons in male very narrow, of same width as or slightly wider than ocellar tubercle; frons covered with short black hairs and white scales; face rounded, not projecting, covered with white scales and fine yellowish hairs; occiput clothed with white scales; scape and pedicel yellowish or yellowish-orange, with hairs black above and on sides, and yellowish below; flagellum blackish-brown to black, with apical half tapering (Fig. 4). Scutum blackish in ground color; scutellum, except base and sides, brownish; collar fringed with thick golden yellow hairs, becoming whitish below; thoracic setae more or less golden yellow or reddish-yellow; pleura covered with white scales and fine yellowish hairs. Wings with brownish basicostal infuscation extending over basal half of surface, with basal costal, costal and subcostal cells dark brownish, and base paler brownish; hyaline spots (window panes) present on crossveins and origin of vein R 2+3; basal medial cell (bm) pale brownish, with dark brown spot on apical third, joined to brownish large spot on basal third of discal medial cell (dm); basal radial cell (br) mainly infuscated brownish; posterior cubital cell (cup) infuscated brownish at middle; brownish spot on base of discal medial cell not exceeding base of r–m crossvein; anterior cubital cells (cua 1) narrowly infuscated at base; calypter yellowish, fringed with long white scales. Legs with femora blackish-brown with yellowish-brown tips; tibiae dark brown; tarsi black; femora and tibiae clothed with whitish scales. Abdomen dark gray in ground color, with three white and four black transverse bands of scales; 1 st tergite with yellowish-white scales, becoming pure white on lateral sides; 2 nd tergite with yellowish-white scales on basal two-fifths, rest with black scales; 3 rd tergite with white scales on basal half, and black scales on apical half; 4 th tergite with white scales, becoming yellowish on hind border towards lateral sides; 5 th tergite with black scales on basal half, and yellowish scales on apical half; 6 th tergite with black scales on basal half, and white scales on apical half; 2 nd to 5 th tergites with short and fine black hairs among scales, these hairs become longer on apical half of 5 th tergite; 6 th tergite clothed with fairly long black hairs. Gonocoxites (Figs. 8, 9) prominent at basal half; epiphallus bulging at tip, spinulate dorsally before the bulging tip (Figs. 5 –7).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC6AFF8BFF4FFBE7FCD0FE80	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC6BFF89FF4FF915FCA2FC2C.text	03B587DBDC6BFF89FF4FF915FCA2FC2C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax elegans subsp. elegans (Wiedemann 1820) elegans (Wiedemann in Meigen 1820	<div><p>Thyridanthrax elegans elegans (Wiedemann, 1820)</p><p>(Figs 10–15)</p><p>Anthrax elegans Hoffmansegg in Wiedemann 1818: 17 . Nomen nudum.</p><p>Nemotelus inquinatus Pallas in Wiedemann 1818: 17 . Unavailable name; name proposed in synonymy and not made available before 1961.</p><p>Anthrax elegans Wiedemann in Meigen 1820: 155 . Type locality: Portugal and Russia [as “Südrussland”].</p><p>Anthrax varinevris Macquart 1846: 351 (223), pl. 9, fig. 14. Type locality: Palaearctic [specific locality not given].</p><p>Anthrax variegatus Jaennicke 1867: 69 . Type locality: Italy (Sicily).</p><p>Thyridanthrax dolgovskayae Zaitzev 1999: 898 . Type locality: Israel.</p><p>Distribution: PA: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France (incl. Corsica), Greece (incl. Corfu, Lesbos), Georgia, Iran, Israel, Italy (incl. Sicily), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain (incl. Ibiza, Mallorca), Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Alexandria (Nuzha and Ramleh), Mariout (Burg).</p><p>Material examined: EGY: 2 males and 2 females, Burg, 15.VII.1926 (H.C.E. and M.T.); 2 females, Nuzha, 25.VIII.1926 (H.C.E. and M.T.); 1 male, same data, 4.VIII.1926; 1 male and 2 females, same data, 21.VII.1926 [EFC].</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: approximately 7 mm. Almost all frons and occiput black in ground color, face yellowish; frons and face at apex of facial cone with black hairs; frons and face covered with whitish-yellow scales; gena with white hairs; occiput densely covered with pure white scales, yellowish on middle behind vertex; scape and pedicel reddish-yellow with black hairs; flagellum dark brownish, conical, with width at upper third less than half its width at base; upper part of frons in male less than three times as wide as ocellar tubercle, that of female more than three times as wide as ocellar tubercle. Thorax black in ground color, only posterior half of scutellum brownish; tufts of white long scales present above hind coxa; scutum and scutellum covered with yellowish tomentum, becoming whitish on lateral and posterior margins of scutum and on base of scutellum; white transverse band of scaly-hairs present on scutum in front of wing bases; all thoracic setae golden-yellow or reddish-yellow. Legs with fore and mid femora more or less reddish-yellow, black only at bases; hind femora mostly black; tibiae yellowish in basal halves, blackish in apical halves; tarsi blackish; legs covered with white scales mixed with yellowish ones; all legs except fore tibiae with black setae. Wings with brown or yellowish-brown basicostal infuscation extending over basal half of surface, becoming paler at base and costal margin, with hyaline spots on crossveins (window panes); basal medial cell (bm) faintly infuscated yellowish with a brownish spot on distal end joined to brownish large spot on basal half of discal medial cell (dm) and that on middle of posterior cubital cell (cup); brownish spot on base of discal medial cell always reaching beyond base of r–m crossvein; third posterior cell (m2) and anterior cubital cell (cua1) narrowly infuscated at base; calypter yellowish-white; halter yellowish. Abdomen mostly dark brown in ground color; sides of 1 st tergite and anterior corners of 2 nd tergite with white hairs, mixed with black ones on posterior corners of latter; 2 nd tergite broad, covered with yellowish-white scales on anterior half, becoming more yellowish on sides, and with dark brown scales on posterior half forming transverse dark brown band; broad transverse band of whitish scales present on 3 rd tergite, and another more yellowish one may present on 4 th tergite, with narrow dark brown bands present on posterior margins of both; posterior margins of 6 th and entire 7 th tergite with whitish scales, rest with yellowish scales except some dark brown scales on anterior margins of 5 th and 6 th tergites; some black hairs present on 4 th and 5 th tergites especially on posterior margins and sides. Epiphallus large, spinulate dorsally at apical part, and curved dorsally at level of tip of aedeagus forming marked angle (Figs. 12 – 14). Spermatheca (Fig. 15) with the swelling in the duct separated from the terminal bulb by about the length of the pump, or slightly more. The swelling approximately has the same size as the terminal bulb.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC6BFF89FF4FF915FCA2FC2C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC69FF87FF4FFBE2FD88FCF0.text	03B587DBDC69FF87FF4FFBE2FD88FCF0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax elegansoides El-Hawagry & Abdel-Dayem & Al Dhafer 2019	<div><p>Thyridanthrax elegansoides El-Hawagry sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 16 – 24)</p><p>Specimens of this species were identified by E.O. Engel as T. elegans and deposited amongst other specimens of T. elegans in EFC. However, they were found to clearly differ from other specimens of T. elegans in some external morphological features such as the color of antennae, which are entirely dark brown, the ground color of the scutellum, which is dark brown to black, the color of legs, which are dark brown with apical halves of tibiae and tarsi black, and the contrasting banding pattern of the abdomen. To confirm these specific differences, the male genitalia were dissected; it was then found that these specimens undoubtedly represent a completely different species.</p><p>Distribution: PA: Egypt.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Eastern Desert: Wadies, southeast of Cairo. Lower Nile Valley: Helwan.</p><p>Material examined: EGY: Holotype male, Helwan, 17.IV.1934 ( Farag) ; Paratypes: 1 female, same data as holotype; 1 female, Helwan, 16.IV.1930 (Tewfik) ; 1 male, dissected, Wadi Hetaim, 16.IV.1930 (Tewfik) ; 1 male and 1 female, Wadi Rigam El-Sheikh Salama, 14.IV.1930 (Tewfik) [EFC] .</p><p>Description. Holotype, male. Relatively medium-sized species, body length: 8 mm, wing length: 6.5 mm. Head (Fig. 18) dark brown to black in ground color, face yellowish; frons with numerous black hairs and sparse yellowishwhite long scales, being denser on lower part; face densely covered with yellowish-white scales and hairs becoming more whitish on sides, with few black hairs on apex of facial cone; gena with white hairs; occiput densely covered with pure white scales, but yellowish on middle behind vertex; antennae (Fig. 17) entirely dark brown with black hairs on scape and pedicel; flagellum conical, tapering at apical half; upper part of frons in male less than three times as wide as ocellar tubercle. Thorax including scutellum dark brown to black in ground color; scutum covered with yellowish-white vestiture, mixed with whitish scales on posterior part, few short black hairs on postalar calli; white transverse band of scales and scaly-hairs present on scutum in front of wing bases; scutellum covered with white longitudinal scales, becoming slightly yellowish at middle; thoracic setae reddish-yellow, being glossy golden-yellow at posterior margin of scutum and on all scutellum; tufts of pure white long scales present above hind coxae; episternum densely covered with white vestiture. All legs dark brown, with tarsi and apical halves of tibiae black; legs covered with white scales mixed with yellowish ones; all legs except fore tibiae with black setae. Wings with faint brown or yellowish-brown basicostal infuscation extending over basal half of surface, becoming paler at base and costal margin, with hyaline spots on crossveins (window panes); basal medial cell (bm) faintly infuscated brownish with slightly darker spot on apex not joined to brownish large spot on basal half of discal medial cell (dm); posterior cubital cell (cup) slightly infuscated but without a distinct spot; brownish spot on base of discal medial cell always reaching beyond base of r–m crossvein; third posterior cell (m2) and anterior cubital cell (cua1) narrowly infuscated at base; calypter yellowish, fringed with pure white longitudinal scales; base of costa covered with yellowish-brown scales; halter yellowish-brown with whitish-yellow tip. Abdomen dark brown in ground color; sides of 1 st tergite and anterior corners of 2 nd tergite with pure white hairs, mixed with dark brown to black hairs on posterior corners of latter; sides of 4 th and 5 th tergites and posterior margins of latter with numerous long black hairs; rest of abdominal hairs white to whitish-yellow; 2 nd tergite broadly covered with white to yellowish-white scales on anterior quarter, and dark brown to black scales on posterior three-quarters forming broad transverse dark band; transverse bands of yellowish-white scales present on anterior two-thirds of 3 rd and 4 th tergites, only narrow dark brown bands present on posterior margins; almost entire 5 th tergite and anterior half of 6 th tergite covered with dark brown to black scales, only few brownish-yellow scales present on posterior margin of 5 th tergite, rest of 6 th tergite and entire 7 th tergite with whitish scales. Male genitalia (Figs. 19 – 24) with epiphallus long, broad, straight, bluntly rounded at apex, not spinulate.</p><p>Female (paratype). Similar to male holotype but with upper part of frons more than three times as wide as ocellar tubercle. Female genitalia not dissected.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC69FF87FF4FFBE2FD88FCF0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC67FF84FF4FFC96FC18FDFC.text	03B587DBDC67FF84FF4FFC96FC18FDFC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax griseolus (Klug 1832)	<div><p>Thyridanthrax griseolus (Klug, 1832)</p><p>(Figs 25, 27)</p><p>Anthrax griseola Klug 1832: pl. 30, fig. 11. Type locality: Lebanon or Syria.</p><p>Distribution: PA: Egypt, Iran, Lebanon,? Libya, Syria, Tunisia.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Mallaha. Eastern Desert: Wadi Abu-Trefia, Wadi Um Elek. Lower Nile Valley: Abu-Rawash, Borgash, Kafr Hakim, El-Katta, Mansheyet Radwan, Mansouriah. Fayoum: Tamyiah. Sinai: El-Arish, Wadi El-Arbaein (South Sinai). Gebel Elba: Wadi Ibib.</p><p>Material examined: EGY: 1 female, Abu-Rawash, 16.IX.1924 (R.M.) ; 1 female, Arish, Wadi El-Daiqa, 25.VIII.1951 (Shafik) ; 1 female, Borgash, 7.IX.1924 ; 1 female, El-Katta, 20.IX.1924 (R.M.) ; 1 male Fayoum, Tamyiah, 31.III.1947 (Sh.M. &amp; Str.) ; 1 female, same data, 16. VI.1947; 1 male and 1 female, Kafr Hakim, 27.VIII.1924 (R.M.) ; 1 female, Kafr Hakim, 20.VII.1924 (R.M.) ; 1 male, Mallaha, 23.VII.1927 (R.M.) ; 1 female, Wadi Abu-Trefia, 18.IV.1930 (Tewfik) ; 1 male, Wadi El-Arbaein (S. Sinai), VIII–IX.1940 (H.C.E. &amp; Sh.M.) ; 1 female, Wadi Ibib ( South Eastern Desert), 11.III.1928 (Tewfik) ; 1 female, Wadi Um Elek, 25.IV.1930 (Farag) [EFC].</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: 7–13 mm. Frons mostly dark brown to black in ground color especially at upper part, usually with triangular reddish-brown or yellowish-brown area at middle, face reddish-brown, occiput black; hairs of frons and face white, except some black ones on frons, especially on middle and upper half; frons and face covered with whitish-yellow to yellow scales, becoming slightly whitish on face, and with pure or snowy-white vestiture at sides of lower frons (fronto-orbital plate) and sides of face (parafacials); occiput densely covered with pure white scales, being yellowish at middle behind vertex; scape and pedicel reddish-brown to brown with black hairs; pedicel may be slightly darker than scape, flagellum dark brown to black, subconical; upper part of frons in male approximately three times as wide as ocellar tubercle, those of female approximately 3.5 times as wide as ocellar tubercle. Thorax black in ground color, only posterior half of scutellum brownish; tufts of white long scales present above hind coxae and on katepisternum; scutum covered with golden-yellow tomentum, with white transverse band of scales in front of wing bases; scutellum entirely covered with white scales except middle area with golden-yellow tomentum and hairs; all thoracic setae golden-yellow. Legs yellowish-brown with bases of femora and tarsi black, covered with white scales; all legs except fore tibiae with black setae. Wings with faint yellowish-brown basicostal infuscation extending over basal half to basal two-thirds of surface, becoming paler at base and costal margin, with hyaline spots on crossveins (window panes); basal medial cell (bm) faintly infuscated yellowish with brownish spot on apex not joined to brownish spot on base of discal medial cell (dm); brownish spot on base of discal medial cell not or hardly reaching the base of the r–m crossvein; calypter yellowish-white; halter yellowish-brown with tip of knob whitish-yellow. Abdomen mostly black in ground color, with posterior margins and sides of tergites reddishbrown in some individuals; all tergites of some individuals mostly reddish-brown; sides of 1 st and 2 nd tergites with white hairs, mixed with few black ones on posterior corners of latter; 2 nd tergite broad covered with whitish-yellow scales on anterior two-thirds and yellowish-brown to dark brown scales on posterior third forming a transverse dark band; 3 rd and 4 th tergites covered with yellowish scales on posterior halves, and whitish scales on anterior halves forming transverse bands, with few, if any, yellowish-brown to dark brown scales on posterior margins, forming narrow transverse bands in some individuals; 5 th tergite with yellowish scales on posterior half, being dark brown on anterior half in some individuals; 6 th tergite covered with white scales on anterior half forming transverse band; posterior half of 6 th tergite and entire 7 th tergite with yellowish-white scales; hairs and setae on posterior margins of anal tergites whitish-yellow, rarely mixed with few black ones. Spermatheca (Fig. 27) with the swelling in the duct separated from the terminal bulb by about two times the length of the pump.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC67FF84FF4FFC96FC18FDFC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC65FF85FF4FFF67FC93F934.text	03B587DBDC65FF85FF4FFF67FC93F934.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax incanus (Klug 1832)	<div><p>Thyridanthrax incanus (Klug, 1832)</p><p>(Figs 28–30)</p><p>Anthrax incana Klug 1832: pl. 30, fig. 5. Type locality: Lebanon or Syria.</p><p>Anthrax testacea Macquart 1840: 61 . Type locality: Egypt and probably Saudi Arabia [as “Arabie”].</p><p>Anthrax varipennis Macquart in Lucas 1849: 457 . Type locality: Algeria.</p><p>Distribution: OR: Pakistan. PA: Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Italy (incl. Sicily), Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Yugoslavia.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Amiria, Burg, Mariout, Nuzha. Lower Nile Valley: Mahmoudia. Sinai: Gebel Moussa, Wadi El-Arbaein, Wadi El-Lega, Wadi El-Rabba, Wadi El-Tala’a, Wadi Gebal, Wadi Itlah, Wadi Shalalah.</p><p>Material examined: EGY: 1 male and 1 female, Farsh Gabal Moussa, 26. VI.1930 (H.C.E) ; 1 female, Mariout, Burg, 15, VII.1926 (Efflatoun) ; 1 female, Wadi El-Rabbah, 21–24.IV.1940 (H.C.E.) ; 1 female, Wadi El-Tala’a, 15.V.1996 (Magdi S.A.) ; 1 female, Wadi Gebal, R. Nada, 19.VIII.1995 (Magdi S.A.) ; 1 female, Wadi Gebal, Wadi El-Kat, 20.VIII.1995 (Magdi S.A.) ; 1 female, Wadi Shalalah (nr. Rabbah, S. Sinai), 30. VI.1943 (Efflatoun) ; 1 male, Wadi Itlah (S. Sinai), 10.VII.1943 (Efflatoun) ; 1 male, Wadi El-Lega (S. Sinai), VI–VIII.1943 (Efflatoun) .</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: approximately 14 mm. Head yellowish-brown in ground color, only upper half of frons, vertex, and occiput black; frons with black hairs, almost as long as scape, becoming denser at middle; frons and face covered with yellowish-white scales and scaly-hairs, becoming more yellowish or ochre yellowish on oral margin, sides, and upper portion of frons and on occiput; scape yellowish with long black hairs, mixed with few yellowish ones; pedicel darker with shorter black hairs; flagellum conical, dark brown to black, longer than scape and pedicel together; upper part of frons in male less than three times as wide as ocellar tubercle, those of female more than three times as wide as ocellar tubercle. Thorax black in ground color, with apical half of scutellum yellowish-brown; collar golden ochre yellow hairy; tuft of almost pure white hairs present in front of wing base; tuft of white long scaly-hairs present above hind coxae and on laterotergites. Scutum and scutellum covered with ochre yellow scaly-hairs, becoming lighter on lateral and basal margins of scutellum; notopleural setae reddish-yellow, other setae of scutum and scutellum golden yellowish. Legs yellowish-brown, with tips of tibiae and tarsi blackish; covered with yellowish-white scales. Wings with pale brown or yellowish-brown basicostal infuscation extending over basal half to basal two-thirds of surface, with paler base and hyaline spots on crossveins (window panes); brown pattern on wing usually reduced to spots separated by pale areas on crossveins and on base; base of costa covered with yellowish-white scales becoming more whitish on lower half. Abdomen with tergites in some specimens black, with narrow brownish-yellow posterior margins and reddish-yellow spots on sides, in some other specimens tergites predominantly reddish-yellow or brown with 1 st tergite and middle parts of 2 nd and 3 rd tergites black; all sides of abdomen surrounded with glossy yellowish-white hairs, mixed with very few black ones on sides of 4 th and 5 th tergites; some black hairs present also on posterior margins of tergites 2–5; 1 st tergite with whitish relatively long scaly-hairs on posterior border; 2 nd tergite covered with yellowish scaly-hairs on anterior two-thirds becoming whitish on anterior border, with band of dark brownish scaly-hairs on posterior third becoming wider on middle; 3 rd and 4 th tergites covered with whitish scaly-hairs forming transverse band on anterior half of each, becoming yellowish and brownish on posterior half, with narrow band of dark brownish scaly-hairs sometimes present on posterior margin; 5 th tergite completely covered with yellowish scaly-hairs, becoming slightly whitish on anterior half, mixed with some black hairs on posterior margin; 6 th tergite covered with whitish scaly-hairs mixed with few yellowish ones on posterior margin; 7 th tergite completely covered with long white scales. Spermatheca (Fig. 30) with the duct between the bulb and swelling slightly dilated; swelling separated from the terminal bulb by about the length of the pump and located at the middle between the bulb and the pump.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC65FF85FF4FFF67FC93F934	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC65FF83FF4FF8DBFB7AFBF4.text	03B587DBDC65FF83FF4FF8DBFB7AFBF4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax lotus (Loew 1869)	<div><p>Thyridanthrax lotus (Loew, 1869)</p><p>(Figs 31–36)</p><p>Anthrax lotus Loew 1869: 164 . Type locality: Greece (Rhodes) and Turkey [as “Küste Kleinasiens”].</p><p>Villa confusa Becker 1916: 47 . Type locality: Greece and Syria, or Turkey [as “Klein-Asien”] and “Turkistan”. Distribution: PA: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece (incl. Rhodes), Georgia, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Burg, Mariout. Eastern Desert: Wadies south east of Cairo. Fayoum: Girza Route. Sinai: Wadi El-Arbaein, Wadi Firan, Wadi Garagnyia.</p><p>Material examined: EGY: 1 male, Burg, 10.V.1927 (Tewfik) ; 1 male and 1 female, same data, 20.V.1927; 1 female, Fayoum, Girza Route, 14.IV.1947 (Sh.M. &amp; Str.) ; 1 male, Wadi El-Arbaein (S. Sinai), VIII–IX.1940 (H.C.E. &amp; Sh.M.) ; 1 male, Wadi Firan, 25. VI.1936 (H.C.E); 1 female, Wadi Garagnyia (S, Sinai), VI–VIII.1942 (H.C.E) ; 1 female, Wadi Garawi, 19.IV.1926 ( Farag) .</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: 8–13 mm. Frons and occiput black in ground color, ocellar tubercle dark brown, face and oral margin brownish-yellow; frons with black hairs and yellowish scales becoming more whitish on sides of lower part; face with sparse whitish hairs and covered with yellowish scales becoming whitish laterally; occiput covered with dense silvery-white scaly-hairs; upper part of frons in male approximately three times or less as wide as ocellar tubercle, those of female approximately 3.5 times or more as wide as ocellar tubercle; antennae dark brown to black, with scape and pedicel sometimes more brownish; scape and pedicel with yellowish-white hairs, mixed with some black ones on dorsal side. Thorax black in ground color, only scutellum reddish-brown at apical part; collar and upper part of mesopleuron golden-yellow hairy, remaining hairs and scales on pleura white; tufts of white scaly-hairs present in front of wing bases, forming beginnings of white transverse band connecting both wing bases; rest of scutum and scutellum covered with golden ocher-yellow vestiture, between which there are scattered black hairs especially on sides; thoracic setae golden-yellow to brownish-yellow. Legs with femora black with yellowish-brown tips; tibiae yellowish-brown with black tips; tarsi black; legs covered with yellowish-white scales. Wings hyaline, with basal costal, costal and subcostal cells almost tinged yellowish; base of costa covered with yellowish scales; calypter whitish, fringed white. Abdomen in female predominantly black in ground color, with margins of tergites and sides of basal tergites yellowish-brown; in male, yellowish-brown color is often spread and only 1 st tergite and centers of 2 nd– 6 th tergites remain black; 1 st tergite, front corners of 2 nd tergite, and lateral sides of other tergites with yellowish-white hairs; on anal tergite, yellowish-white hairs are mostly mixed with black hairs; all tergites covered with dark brown to black scales and dense brownish-white or golden scales, except anal tergites, which have lighter, almost whitish scales; black scales usually form transverse bands on posterior half of 2 nd tergite and on anterior margins of 5 th and 6 th tergits, with those of 2 nd tergite wider than the other two bands. Gonocoxites with basal half prominent and broad; epiphallus long, broad, and straight-sided when seen dorsally at apical part, with lateral halves of apical part slightly bent dorsally and with apex angulated, not rounded, not curled and not spinulate (Figs. 33–36).</p><p>Remarks: The male genitalia of T. lotus differs in some features from other Thyridanthrax spp. Based on these genitalic characters and wing morphology, T. lotus is clearly do not fit to the genus Thyridanthrax, and may need to be placed elsewhere, yet it is not clear whether it can be included in any of the other currently recognized genera in the tribe Villini . We tentatively keep it here until more rigorous analysis can be conducted.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC65FF83FF4FF8DBFB7AFBF4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC63FF83FF4FFB9BFAE5F876.text	03B587DBDC63FF83FF4FFB9BFAE5F876.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax obliteratus (Loew 1862)	<div><p>Thyridanthrax obliteratus (Loew, 1862)</p><p>Anthrax obliterata Loew 1862: 80 . Type locality: Greece.</p><p>Distribution: PA: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Greece, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Kyrgyz Republic, Libya, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Mallaha. Sinai: El-Arish.</p><p>Material examined: 1 female, Mallaha, 10.VIII.1927 (R.M.) ; 1 female, Arish, Wadi El-Daiqa, 25.VIII.1951 (Shafik) [EFC].</p><p>Diagnosis: Upper part of frons and occiput black in ground color, with face and lower parts of frons yellowish; middle of face, middle of lower half of frons, and all upper half of frons with bright ocher yellowish scales, becoming pure white on sides of lower frons, sides of face, and genae; face and frons with short whitish-yellow hairs, with some brown to black hairs only on vertex next to ocellar tubercle; scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, predominantly with yellowish hairs. Thorax black in ground color, most part of scutellum yellowish or reddish-brown; scutum and scutellum predominantly covered with yellowish vestiture; setae on scutum and scutellum golden yellow. Wings with basal medial cell (bm) slightly yellowish, only distal end brown or at least darker; third posterior cell (m2) and anterior cubital cell (cua1) narrowly infuscated at base. Abdomen black in ground color, with narrow yellowishbrown margins of tergites and large triangular reddish-brown spots on sides of 2 nd and 3 rd tergites; sides of 1 st and front corners of 2 nd tergites with protruding long white hairs; back corners of 2 nd tergite with few short black hairs; on posterior margins of 5 th and 6 th tergites white hairs mixed with short black hairs; tergites covered with brownish to black scales, interrupted at 3 rd and 4 th tergites by broad white bands occupying almost entire tergites except hind quarters, which intersperse with golden scales on posterior margins; golden scales present also on posterior margin of 5 th tergite, while posterior margin of 6 th tergite with white scales, which completely cover 7 th tergite.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC63FF83FF4FFB9BFAE5F876	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC60FF81FF4FFF66FE44FEF8.text	03B587DBDC60FF81FF4FFF66FE44FEF8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax perspicillaris subsp. perspicillaris (Loew 1869) perspicillaris (Loew 1869	<div><p>Thyridanthrax perspicillaris perspicillaris (Loew, 1869)</p><p>(Figs 37–42)</p><p>Anthrax gallus Loew 1869: 155 . Type locality: France (Bordeaux).</p><p>Anthrax perspicillaris Loew 1869: 157 . Type locality: Italy and Greece, and probably Kazakhstan [as “Südrussland”] and Turkey [as “Klein-Asien”].</p><p>Thyridanthrax ternarius Bezzi 1920: 108 . Type locality: Ethiopia [as “Scioa”].</p><p>Thyridanthrax ternarius Bezzi 1921: 136 . Type locality: South Africa (Northern Cape and Mpumalanga). Preoccupied by Bezzi (1920).</p><p>Anthrax pyrroproctus Bigot in Bezzi 1921: 137 . Nomen nudum.</p><p>Thyridanthrax ternarius Bezzi 1924: 210 . Type locality: Gambia. Preoccupied by Bezzi (1920).</p><p>Distribution: AF: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, South Africa (Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, Western Cape), Sudan, United Arab Emirates. OR: Pakistan. PA: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece (incl. Rhodes), Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy (incl. Sicily), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Libya, Morocco, Mongolia, Palestine (West Bank), Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Salloum; Eastern Desert: Suez Road, Wadies southeast of Cairo; Fayoum: Fayoum City; Gebel Elba: Mersa Halayeb, Wadi Edeib; Sinai: Wadi El-Arbaein, Wadi El-Lega, Wadi El-Rabba, Wadi Firan, Wadi Garagneyia.</p><p>Saudi Arabian localities: Haiel: 40 km west of Haiel, Haiel City, Saqf (Haiel Governorate). Makkah: Al-Baha- Taief Road (Taief Governorate), nr. El-Leith (El-Leith Governorate). Riyadh: Riyadh City (Riyadh Governorate).</p><p>Material examined: EGY: 1 male, Fayoum, 11.III.1947 (Sh. &amp; Roman) ; 1 female, Ogret El-Sheikh, 12.X.1925 (Farag) ; 1 male and 1 female, Wadi El-Arbaein (St. Katherina, S. Sinai), 19–27.IV.1939 (Eff. &amp; Tew.) ; 1 male, same data, VIII–IX.1040 (H.C.E. &amp; Sh. M.); Wadi Dar El-Maskhara, 12.III.1930 (Tewfik) ; 1 female, Wadi Digla, 23.VIII.1925 (Tewfik) ; 1 female, Wadi Edeib, 26.II–7.III.1938 (H.C.E. &amp; M.T.) ; 1 male, Wadi El-Lega (S. Sinai), VI–IX.1941 (H.C.E) ; 1 female, Wadi El-Arbaein, 21.V.1997 (Magdi) ; 1 male, Wadi Gebal, R. Nada (S. Sinai), 19.VIII.1995 (Magdi S.A.) ; 1 male and 1 female, same data, 26.VIII.1996; 1 male, Wadi Morrah, 16.X.1925 (Farag) ; 1 male, Wadi Zaeitar (Sinai), 24.VIII.1996 (Magdi, S.A.) . KSA: 1 female, Al-Baha-Taief Road (El-Hawagry) [in personal collection of El-Hawagry] .</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: 7–14 mm. Frons and occiput grayish-black to black in ground color, only face and oral margin yellowish, with upper middle part of face slightly blackish in some individuals; frons with numerous black hairs which may extend below antennae, mixed with some sparse golden yellow scales; face with sparse short black hairs, numerous yellowish-white hairs becoming longer and denser on sides, and yellowish-white scales becoming more whitish on sides; tip of facial cone with numerous coarse short black hairs; palpi yellowish; scape and pedicel reddish-yellow with numerous black hairs; flagellum black with pointed dark brown apex; upper part of frons in male approximately three times as wide as ocellar tubercle, those of female approximately 3.5 times or more as wide as ocellar tubercle. Thorax black in ground color, only scutellum brownish-red, at least at middle; hairs on collar and upper half of mesopleuron brownish or golden yellow, becoming whitish on prosternum and lower half of mesopleuron; scutum and scutellum covered with golden yellow and whitish scaly-hairs becoming white, larger, and denser on base of scutellum; white transverse band of scaly-hairs present on scutum in front of wing bases; hairs of scutum and scutellum yellowish, mixed with some short black hairs especially on margins of scutum; notopleura with a complete long white stripe of scaly-hairs; all thoracic setae golden-yellow. Legs mainly dark brown to black, predominantly covered with yellowish scales. Wings usually without interradial crossvein between R 2+3 and R 4 (i.e., with two submarginal cells), some individuals with interradial crossvein present (i.e., with three submarginal cells); wings with intense pattern, with apical and basal borders of infuscation sharply marked off from small hyaline areas; calypter yellowish-white to pale brownish, with long white fringe; halteres yellowish-white with more whitish tip. Abdomen black in ground color, reddish-brown at sides of 2 nd– 4 th tergites; in some individuals, reddish-brown coloration more prevalent in all tergites especially anal ones; sides of 1 st tergite, front corners of 2 nd and 4 th tergites, and mostly posterior corners of 3 rd tergite white hairy; ventrally bent parts of 2 nd, 3 rd, 5 th, and 6 th tergites black haired, those of 4 th and anal tergites with only white hairs; surface of all tergites, except last one, extensively covered with dark brown to pure black vestiture, interrupted on anterior edges of 3 rd and 4 th tergites by wide, narrowly interrupted, transverse bands of white vestiture; a large patch of white vestiture also present on middle of 6 th tergite; posterior margin of 6 th tergite and 7 th tergite with ivory white tomentum. Gonocoxites shell-like, with deep division between basal and apical halves, apical half with long hairs, basal half prominent; epiphallus broadly rounded at apex, dorsally enlarged at base aedeagus short (Figs. 39–41). Spermatheca (Fig. 42) with the swelling in the duct separated from the terminal bulb by more than three times the length of the pump and separated from the pump by about the length of the pump itself.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC60FF81FF4FFF66FE44FEF8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
03B587DBDC61FF9FFF4FF9B9FD8AFD84.text	03B587DBDC61FF9FFF4FF9B9FD8AFD84.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thyridanthrax polyphemus (Wiedemann 1820)	<div><p>Thyridanthrax polyphemus (Wiedemann, 1820) [New record from Egypt]</p><p>(Figs 43–48)</p><p>Anthrax polyphemus Hoffmansegg in Wiedemann 1819: 9 . Nomen nudum.</p><p>Anthrax polyphemus Wiedemann in Meigen 1820: 168 . Type locality: Portugal.</p><p>Thyridanthrax polyphemus var. pumilio Austen 1937: 149 . Type locality: Israel.</p><p>Distribution: PA: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, France, Greece, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Palestine (West Bank), Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.</p><p>Egyptian localities: Sinai: Wadi El-Arbaein, Wadi El-Rabba, Wadi Garagneyia .</p><p>Material examined: EGY: 1 male, Wadi El-Arbaein (S. Sinai), VIII–IX.1940 (H.C.E. &amp; Sh.M.) ; 1 male and 1 female, Wadi El-Rabba, 21–24.IV.1940 (H.C.E.) ; 1 female, same locality, 13–19.IV.1940 (H.C.E.); 1 male, same locality, 26.IV.1940 (H.C.E.); Wadi Garagnyia (S. Sinai), VI–VIII.1942 (H.C.E.) [EFC] .</p><p>.</p><p>Diagnosis: Body length: approximately 18 mm. Head reddish-brown or yellowish-red in ground color, only vertex and occiput especially behind eye margins black; upper part of frons in male approximately three times as wide as ocellar tubercle, those of female approximately four or more times as wide as ocellar tubercle; frons and face with long (longer than scape) glossy black hairs, becoming denser on middle of frons and on apex of facial cone; golden yellow scaly-hairs cover frons and face, becoming whitish on genae and sides of face, mixed on face with short whitish-yellow hairs; scape and pedicel reddish or brownish-yellow, with pedicel slightly darker, glossy black haired, with those on scape longer, forming tufts on inner margins; flagellum dark brown. Thorax black in ground color, only postpronotal lobes, postalar calli, and scutellum brownish; collar and upper half of mesopleuron golden ochre yellow hairy; prosternum and lower half of pleuron creamy white, and a tuft of almost pure white hairs present in front of wing base; scutum and scutellum covered with ochre yellow scaly-hairs, becoming creamy white on lateral and basal margins of scutellum, with some scattered black hairs on middle of scutum and apical part of scutellum; all setae of scutum and scutellum golden yellowish. Wings brown infuscated, pale brownish or yellowish-brown at base and costal margin, with hyaline spots on crossveins (window panes); cell r 5 narrowed at wing margin, contact of cell cua1 (anterior cubital cell) with cell dm (discal medial cell) much shorter than basal vein of former; r–m crossvein always slightly distal to middle of discal medial cell; calypter bright yellowish-brown. Abdomen reddish-brown in ground color, more or less black at middle of tergites; 1 st and sides of 2 nd tergites with long creamy-white hairs, becoming shorter and mixed with scaly-hairs of same color on rest of 2 nd tergite; 3 rd, 4 th, and 6 th tergites densely covered with white scaly-hairs forming white transverse bands; 2 nd– 4 th tergites covered with short brownish-yellow scaly-hairs especially on middle and posterior margins, mixed with black hairs on posterior margins; 5 th tergite entirely covered with brownish-yellow scaly-hairs mixed with black hairs; 7 th tergite with short yellowish-white scaly-hairs, mixed with long creamy white scales and hairs on posterior margin. gonocoxites with numerous long hairs ventrally on apical half; epiphallus straight, bluntly rounded at apex, not spinulate (Figs. 45–47). Spermatheca (Fig. 48) with the duct between the bulb and swelling short and gradually dilates towards the swelling; swelling separated from the terminal bulb by about the length of the pump and approximately located at the middle between the bulb and the pump.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587DBDC61FF9FFF4FF9B9FD8AFD84	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	El-Hawagry, Magdi S.;Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2019): On the taxonomy of the genus Thyridanthrax Osten Sacken in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 4701 (6): 501-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.1
