Poecilanthrax is a large, primarily Nearctic genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae.
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Poecilanthrax is a large, primarily Nearctic genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae.
These are large to large robust flies with a body length of 8–14 mm. They have large elongate pictured wings, with 2 or 3 submarginal cells and no vein M2. The abdomen is moderately lengthened, with 7 visible tergites. The front tarsi are reduced, and the tibia smooth. The larvae feed on the moth larva of members of the family Noctuidae. Adults feed on pollen.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).