Anthrax analis

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| image = Anthrax analis - inat 96112040.jpg

| image_caption = Anthrax analis, Virginia

| genus = Anthrax

| species = analis

| authority = Say, 1823{{cite journal |last1=Say |first1=Thomas |title=Descriptions of dipterous insects of the United States |journal=Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |date=1823 |volume=3 |pages=73–104 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24668664#page/83/mode/1up |accessdate=1 May 2020}}

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| synonyms = *Anthrax georgicus Macquart, 1834{{cite book|last1=Macquart|first1=P. J. M.|title=Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome premiere|date=1834|publisher=Roret|location=Paris|pages=578 + 8 pp., 12 pls}}

• Anthrax cedens Walker, 1852{{cite book|last1=Walker|first1=Frances|title=Diptera. Part III, pp. 157–252, pls. 5–6. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1|date=1852|publisher=Van Voorst|location=London|pages=1–474}}
• Hemipenthes latelimbatus Bigot, 1892{{cite journal |last1=Bigot |first1=J.M.F. |title=Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 37 partie, XLVI: Bombylidi (mihi). 1re partie |journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France |date=1892 |volume=61 |pages=321–376 |doi=10.1080/21686351.1892.12279719 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8255511#page/327/mode/1up |access-date=15 July 2022}}
• Spongostylum grossbecki Johnson, 1913{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=C.W. |title=Insects of Florida. I. Diptera |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |date=1913 |volume=32 |pages=37–90 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/86424#page/67/mode/1up |access-date=15 July 2022}}
• Spongostylum occidentalis Johnson, 1913

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Anthrax analis, the black bee fly, is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It can be found throughout North America, from the Yukon east to Quebec in Canada, the entire mainland United States, most of Mexico, and as far south as Costa Rica and Cuba.{{cite book |last1=Evenhuis |first1=N.L. |last2=Greathead |first2=D.J |title=World catalog of the bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) |date=1999 |publisher=Backhuys Publishers |location=Leiden |pages=xlviii + 756 pp}} As an adult it is a pollinator, and as a larva it is a parasitoid of tiger beetles in the genus Cicindela, and likely also of solitary bees.{{Cite journal |last1=Arndt |first1=Erik |last2=Costa |first2=Cleide |date=2001-04-01 |title=Parasitism of Neotropical Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) by Anthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae) |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/snfe.36.1.63.8885 |journal=Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=63–66 |doi=10.1076/snfe.36.1.63.8885 |bibcode=2001SNFE...36...63A |issn=0165-0521|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Schluep |first1=Sierra M. |last2=Buckner |first2=Eva A. |date=2021-09-24 |title=Metabolic Resistance in Permethrin-Resistant Florida Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) |journal=Insects |volume=12 |issue=10 |pages=866 |doi=10.3390/insects12100866 |doi-access=free |issn=2075-4450|pmc=8540271 }} It is variable in appearance, with the posterior half of the wings usually transparent, but in the eastern United States the wings may be entirely dark.{{cite journal |last1=Marston |first1=N.L. |title=Revision of the New World species of Anthrax (Diptera: Bombyliidae) other than Anthrax albofasciatus group |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |date=1970 |volume=43 |pages=1–148 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5287/SCtZ-0043-Hi_res.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=15 July 2022}} The body itself is covered in black hair, but the tip of the abdomen usually has silvery scales.