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'''Identification:'''

Head: Brown. Eyes large, sometimes with white along inner eye margins. 

Antenna: Brown, very short, palpi-like placed low on face. 

Thorax: Black, often bald with fringe of long brown hair surrounding thorax. Some whitish scales around segment 2 (scutellum). 

Wings: Mostly dark brown, with tiny white squares along outer (costal) edge. Inner wing margin area has clear areas speckled with black; usually a larger area of clear about mid wing extending from inner to almost the outer margin. 

Legs: Brown, long and thin. Some long hairs on shins. 

Abdomen: Black, hairy, with fringe of longer black hairs mixed with a few white along each side of abdomen. Some white scales also throughout the abdomen. 

'''Similar Species:''' ''Anthrax irroratus'' has the most heavily dark marked wings in Ontario. 

'''Size:''' 4 to 9 mm. long. 

'''Habitat:''' Forests 

'''Food:''' Adults do not eat. Larvae feed on many wasp and bee larvae. 

'''Flight Time:''' May to August. 

'''Life Cycle:''' A parasite of a variety of hymenopterous insects nesting in logs, banks, and open, flat areas. Females often are observed ovipositing in openings of tunnels in stumps and logs and are sometimes attracted to the collector, flipping eggs at dark spots on clothing.

'''Synonyms:''' Say 1823

The name is often confused with ''Anthrax irrorata'' (not ''irroratus'') by Macquart, 1840, which is now ''Anthrax oepidus'' from southern U.S. and has many synonyms. 

'''References:'''

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1823-24, Vol. 3 by Say, pg. 46.

The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1966 & 1968, Vol. 42 & 44 by Parker & Bohart.

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1967, Vol. 69 #1 by Krombein, pg. 92.

Trap-nesting Wasps, 1967 by Krombein, pp. 161-165.

Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 1970 #43 by Marston, pp. 10-13. 

'''Types:'''

Holotype as ''Anthrax irroratus'' by Say, 1823. Type Locality: Near Rocky Mountains. Type lost. Possibly a lectotype in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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