Toxophorinae Schiner, 1868

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 : 140

Toxophorinae Schiner

Type genus: Toxophora Meigen, 1803 .

Bowden (1980) united the Toxophorinae , Systropodinae and Gerontinae of authors as tribes within a single subfamily. The phylogenetic analysis of Yeates (1994) supports his conclusion. The antennae of all three tribes have a single flagellomere without a style, lack vein M 2 (three posterior cells) and cell cup is closed. The males also have complex genitalia, with heavily sclerotised processes on the gonocoxae and/or epandrium, and elaborate processes on the phallosome. The females have elongate tubular, coiled spermathecal bulbs.