Belongs within: Bombyliidae.
Contains: Anthracini, Exoprosopini, Villini.
The Anthracinae are a group of bee flies united by the presence in the male genitalia of an epiphallus as a large lobe above the aedeagus (Lambkin et al. 2003).
<==Anthracinae [Exoprosopinae]KME08 |--Petrorossia [Xeramoebini]LYG03 `--+--AnthraciniLYG03 `--+--ExoprosopiniLYG03 `--VilliniLYG03 Anthracinae incertae sedis: AphoebantusH81 [AphoebantiniLYG03] |--A. interruptusE66 `--A. musH81 ProrostomatiniLYG03 Thyridanthrax fenestratoidesKME08 Dicranoclista vandykeiH81 Astrophanes adonisH81 Paradiplocampta tabetiH81 Mancia nanaH81 RhynchanthraxH81 Oestranthrax farinosusH81 Diochanthrax morulusH81
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[E66] Evans, H. E. 1966. The Comparative Ethology and Evolution of the Sand Wasps. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).
[H81] Hall, J. C. 1981. Bombyliidae. In: McAlpine, J. F., B. V. Peterson, G. E. Shewell, H. J. Teskey, J. R. Vockeroth & D. S. Wood (eds) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 1 pp. 589–602. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.
[KME08] Kits, J. H., S. A. Marshall & N. L. Evenhuis. 2008. The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Ontario, with a key to the species of eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 6: 1–52.
[LYG03] Lambkin, C. L., D. K. Yeates & D. J. Greathead. 2003. An evolutionary radiation of beeflies in semi-arid Australia: systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 735–891.