Anthrax gideon
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Bombyliidae
- Genus: Anthrax
- Species: Anthrax gideon
Visual Description
Anthrax gideon is a species of bee fly within the family Bombyliidae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these flies exhibit a robust, hairy body typical of many bombyliids.[1] The wings often display characteristic dark, patterned markings, and the body coloration includes a mix of dark and lighter, possibly yellowish or brownish, pubescence.[1]
General Information
Anthrax gideon was described by the entomologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1805.[2] It is an accepted species within the genus Anthrax.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Bombyliidae / Anthrax / gideon constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Anthrax gideon Fabricius, 1805. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1667186. Accessed 2026-07-14.