Pyrellina Malloch, 1923

Pyrellina Malloch, 1923: 525 . Type species: Lucilia inventrix Walker, 1861 .

Diagnosis. Colouration metallic violaceous-blue; wing without maculae. Female with proclinate frontoorbital seta; parafrons setulose; interfrontal seta absent. Dorsocentrals 2+4 (but 0+ 2 in P. b i c o l o r (Stein)). Posthumeral, parahumeral and presutural developed; postsutural intra-alars 2; intrapostalar present. Prosternum setulose. Katepisternals 1+3. Meron setulose. Wing with the apical portion of stem-vein setulose or not on both dorsal and ventral faces; R1 setulose or bare dorsally, and setulose ventrally; Rs node and R4+5 setulose dorsally and ventrally; M setulose ventrally between r-m and dm-cu crossveins, and bent forward towards R4+5. Lower calypter glossiform. Subcostal sclerite bare. Mid tibia with a strong submedian seta on ventral to posteroventral surface (Fig. 15). Calcar strong. First abdominal sternite widely setulose.

Distribution (12 species). Afrotropical.

References. Curran (1935), Peris (1967), Zielke (1971).