Cephalodromia Becker, 1914

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 : 133

Cephalodromia Becker

Cephalodromia Becker, 1914: 121 . Type species: Cephalodromia curvata Becker, 1914 , by monotypy Ceratolaemus Hesse, 1938:969 (as subgenus of Platypygus Loew ). Type species: Platypygus xanthogrammus Hesse, 1938 , by original designation.

Comments: This genus is known from the southern and eastern Palaearctic, Afrotropical, and Oriental Regions. Many species of this genus were originally described in Cyrtosia .. Examination of types and topotypic specimens of many species in this study has resulted in the transfer of a number of species to Cephalodromia based on the shape of the postgena and genitalia.African species newly transferred to Cephalodromia here include the following: Cephalodromia albocincta (Séguy) comb. n.; C. bicolor (Santos Abreu) comb. n.; C. dumonti (Séguy) comb. n.; C. flava (Séguy) comb. n.; C. humeralis (Santos Abreu) comb. n.; C. nitens (Loew) comb. n.

Distribution: Northern Africa, Canary Islands: 5 species; Cephalodromia albocincta (Séguy) , C. bicolor (Santos Abreu) , C. flava (Séguy) , C. humeralis (Santos Abreu) , C. nitens (Loew) . Southern Africa: 10 species.