Leylaiyinae Greathead and Evenhuis, 2001

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 : 123

Leylaiyinae Greathead and Evenhuis subfam. n.

Type genus: Leylaiya Efflatoun, 1945 , by present designation.

Current members of this subfamily were previously placed by Hull (1973) in the Glabellulini ( Pseudoglabellula ) and Empidideicini ( Leylaiya ), based primarily on the presence or absence of a small triangular cell r 1. The formation and shape of the cell r 1 is actually different in these cases and as such is not considered homoplastic. The subfamily is distinguished from other subfamilies of Mythicomyiidae by the wing veins R 4+5 and M 1 subparallel at the wing margin. Two other generic names placed in this subfamily are Euanthobates Hesse and Acoecus Hull , which are found to be junior synonyms of Leylaiya in this study.