Anthrax pusillus
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 pusillus
Visual Description
Anthrax pusillus is a species of bee fly within the family Bombyliidae. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit the characteristic robust, somewhat hairy body form typical of many bee flies. The wings often display distinct dark, mottled, or patterned pigmentation, a common feature in the genus Anthrax. The body coloration is generally dark, with dense vestiture that can appear somewhat shaggy.[1]
Taxonomic History
Anthrax pusillus was described by the entomologist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann in 1821.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Bombyliidae / Anthrax / pusillus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Anthrax pusillus Wiedemann, 1821. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1666879. Accessed 2026-07-14.