Marleyimyia Hesse, 1956

Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L., 2001, Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae), African Invertebrates 42 (1820), pp. 105-224 : 210

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scientific name	Marleyimyia Hesse
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Marleyimyia Hesse, 1956: 521 , Type species: Marleyimyia natalensis Hesse, 1956 , by original designation.

Comments: Marleyimyia was proposed by Hesse (1956) for a new South African species with reduced mouthparts, reared from a cossid pupa, which did not correspond with Oestranthrax or Villoestrus . Subsequently, a second species was described from Malaysia, also reared from a cossid host.

Hosts: Reared from the pupae of Cossidae (Hesse 1956; du Merle 1975).

Distribution: South Africa and Malaysia. Africa South of the Sahara: KwaZulu-Natal: 1 species; Marleyimyia natalensis Hesse.