Hyperusia Bezzi, 1924

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 : 170

Hyperusia Bezzi

Hyperusia Bezzi, 1921 a: 84 [1924: 107]. Type species: Hyperusia minor Bezzi, 1921 , by subsequent designation (Evenhuis, 1991: 45).

Comments: This genus is similar in appearance to Corsomyza but with a different distribution pattern. The species are found principally outside the winter-rainfall region of southern Africa, where Corsomyza spp. predominate, in tropical southern Africa, and with the addition of the new species described below, the distribution extends northwards to central Tanzania (map in Greathead 2000 a).

Key: Hesse (1938).

Distribution: Afrotropical Region. South Africa, Namibia, Botswana: 8 species, and the following new species from Tanzania.