Platypyginae

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 : 131

Platypyginae Verrall

Type genus: Platypygus Loew, 1844 .

Verrall (1909) proposed this subfamily as a group that would contain those genera of Bombyliinae that have a ‘simple cubital vein’ [= unbranched R 4+5]. This essentially comprises all of the genera of Mythicomyiidae ; but Verrall (1909) only listed Platypygus among the possible genera. Hull (1973) divided the mythicomyiids into Platypyginae and Mythicomyiinae , based on presence ( Platypyginae ) or absence ( Mythicomyiinae ) of vein R 2+3. Hull included the genera Platypygus , Cyrtisiopsis , Cyrtosia , Cephalodromia (as Ceratolaemus ), Onchopelma , Psiloderoides , and Cyrtomorpha in his concept of Platypyginae . We here limit the subfamily to those genera with a long vein R 2+3 (similar in length to R 4+5) and that ends in the costa well beyond the level of the end of vein M 2.