Bombylella Greathead, 1995

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 : 155

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7909975

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scientific name

Bombylella Greathead
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Bombylella Greathead, 1995: 56 . Type species: Bombylius ornatus Wiedemann, 1828 , by original designation.

Comments: This genus corresponds to the Bombylius ornatus group of Bezzi (1924), Group 1 Section 3 of Hesse (1938). It is a predominantly African genus of rather slender, delicately built flies, mostly associated with dense savanna or forest vegetation.

Keys: Palaearctic, in keys to Bombylius spp. , Engel (1932 –7), Paramonov (1940 b); Egypt, Efflatoun (1945 in key to Bombylius spp. ); Afrotropical, Greathead (1999 a).

Hosts: There are two records from South Africa of rearings from the dung balls of Scarabaeidae ( Cambefort 1982) .

Distribution: North Africa: Egypt: 2 species; Bombylella atra (Scopoli) , B. pseudargentata (Paramonov) . Africa South of the Sahara: 16 species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

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